Flood Proofing in Urban Areas

• Main Authors: Bignami, Daniele Fabrizio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rosso, Renzo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sanfilippo, Umberto (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Climate change.; Environmental sciences.; Natural disasters.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Sustainable development.; Climate Change.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Natural Hazards.; Urbanism.; Sustainable Development.

Flood control in urban areas can be feasibly and cost-effectively enhanced by implementing flood proofing approaches to risk reduction in the context of environmental and land-use planning and management. Indeed, flood proofing makes it possible to improve, integrate and in some cases even replace t...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Flood Impact on Buildings
• Chapter 3. Flood Impact on Human Beings Stability
• Chapter 4. Flood Impact on Mobilizable Objects
• Chapter 5. Global Criteria for Impact Estimation
• Chapter 6. Hydrodynamic Criteria for Impact Evaluation
• Chapter 7. Flood Proofing Methods
• Chapter 8. Temporary flood proofing techniques planning
• Chapter 9. Temporary flood proofing devices analysis
• Chapter 10. Tests, Guidelines and Norms.