TY - BOOK AU - Gardiner, John, ed. AU - Starosolszky, Odon, ed. AU - Yevjevich, Vujica, ed. TI - Defence from floods and flood plain management SN - 0792337050 U1 - 551.442 PY - 1995/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Kluwer Academic Publications KW - Flood damage prevention KW - Floodplain management KW - Geography KW - Hydraulic engineering N1 - I -- Defence from Floods -- I.1 Operation of Water Resources Systems for Efficient Defense from Floods -- I.2 Developing Flood Defence as a Sustainable Hazard Alleviation Measure -- I.3 River Training and Defense from Floods -- I.4 Application of Expert Systems (ESs) in Defence from Floods and in Floodplain Management -- I.5 Protecting Levees against Pipings and Overtopping -- I.6 Planning Protective Measures against Seepage through Levees and Dikes -- I.7 The Concept of Seepage Failure of Levees and Causative Condition -- I.8 Forecasts Applications for Defences from Floods -- I.9 Flood Monitoring -- I.10 Urban Flood Control in Karst Areas: The Case of Rethymnon (Greece) -- I.11 Ice and Flood -- I.12 Organization and Preparation for Flood Defence Activities in Hungary -- I.13 Providing Information on Floods A An Approach to the Derivation of the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph of a Topologically Random Channel Network -- I.13 Providing Information on Floods B Statistical Tests of Probability Distributions for Long Flood Records -- II -- Floodplain Management -- II 1 Operation of Flood-affecting Structures for Optimal Floodplain Management -- II 2 Principles of Floodplain Management -- II 3 The Role of Floodplain Management Planning in Changing Flood Impacts -- II 4 Modeling Tools for Floodplain Management -- II 5 River Channel Adjustment to Floodplain Management -- II 6 Input Detection by the Discrete Linear Cascade Model -- II. 7 Planning and Management of Floodplain Rehabilitation -- Using GIS Technology Tools -- II 8 United States Experience with Floodplain Management -- II 9 Missouri River Reservoir System Impact on the Great Flood of 1993 -- II 10 The Mississippi River Basin: Crucible of National Flood Policies -- II 11 Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management in Middle-size Catchments -- II. 12 Floodplain Protection and Management in Karst Areas -- II 13 Flood Risk Mapping and Analysis with Special Regards to Vulnerability of Protected Floodplain Basin -- III -- Ecological and Social Aspects -- III 1 Economic Evaluation of Flood Insurance Programs -- III 2 Public Perception of Flood Risk and Flood Defence Policies -- III. 3 Case Study: Risk-based Analysis of Flood Reduction Measures -- III. 4 The Evolution of U.S. National Policies on Coastal Hazards -- III. 5 Linkage between the Hydrological and Ecological Systems in the Floodplain -- III 6 Water Quality and River Management in the Netherlands -- III. 7 Environmentally and Socially Sound Utilization of Floodplains; Some Austrian Experiences -- III. 8 The Methods and Mechanisms of Establishing Consensus on Water Management Policy in the Netherlands ER -