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Résumé :
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River basin management is an increasingly important issue for authorities in many countries. The variety and extent of the issues involved are considerable, ranging from: flooding (protection of life, property and infrastructure), water resources (quality & quantity), pollution (water treatment & waste disposal), environmental (river restoration, wetlands, sustainable floodplain development) and land use (drainage requirements, soil loss, morphological changes to channels). The European Water Framework Directive is but one example of the new demands being placed upon environmental authorities responsible for river and inland waterways. This book contains edited lectures given by 16 leading European experts at an EU sponsored Advanced Study Course, recently held at the University of Birmingham. The book covers many issues, including: a European perspective on flooding, the influence of climate change, hydro-informatics, hydro-meteorology, rainfall forecasting techniques, rainfall-runoff models, river flow forecasting systems, flood management and decision support systems, river flood hydraulics, numerical methods for shallow water equations, sediment and debris modelling, dam-break modelling, risk and uncertainty issues in flood management, social and economic impacts of floods, developments in flood forecasting and warning systems. The coverage is broad, but integrated, to make it attractive to researchers and professionals working in the field of flood risk management.
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