Dams have made important contributions to human development, and the benefits derived from them have been considerable (World Commission on Dams, 2000). With the rising global population and desire to increase quality of life, dams are prominently staged to deliver hydropower, irrigation and drinking water supplies, recreation, navigation, and many other resources to the growing planet. Further...

Information is provided about the general approach and experience regarding flood management and mitigation in Pakistan, and in the Lai Nullah Basin in particular. An extraordinary flood event in the year 2001 marked the start of a shift towards the concept of integrated flood management with a view to effectively manage and mitigate flood and related problems, both on a national basis and on a...

Due to the complicated environment there are various types of highway disasters in Shaanxi Province (China). The damages caused are severe, losses are heavy, and have rapidly increased over the years, especially those caused by flood disasters along the rivers in mountainous areas. Therefore, research on risk evaluations, which play important roles in the prevention and mitigation of highway di...

The hydrology and geomorphology of large rivers in America reflect the pervasive influence of an extensive water control infrastructure including more than 75,000 dams. One hundred thirty-seven of the very large dams, each storing 1.2 km (10 acre feet) of water or more, alter the flows of every large river in the country. The hydrologic effects of these very large dams emerge from an analysis o...

Recent studies of flood risk at New York Harbor (NYH) have shown disparate results for the 100 year storm tide, providing an uncertain foundation for the flood mitigation response after Hurricane Sandy. Here we present a flood hazard assessment that improves confidence in our understanding of the region’s present-day potential for flooding, by separately including the contribution of tropical c...

Flood hazard is one of the most harmful disasters in the world, and it is significant to obtain information on flood characteristics for disaster mitigation as well as vulnerability assessment. This paper develops a distributed model for simulating flood inundation integrating with rainfall-runoff processes. The model is designed to apply the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM data and...

assessment of watershed management activities is one of the main subjects for future planning of practical projects and natural resources management. due to the lack of any tool for assessment of watershed processes in many cases, distributed hydrological models can be useful. the purpose of this study was evaluation of watershed management activities in kan watershed by hec-hms (hydrologic mod...

This paper shows, through a numerical example, how to develop portfolios of flood management activities that generate the highest return under an acceptable risk for an area in the central part of the Netherlands. The paper shows a method based on Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) that contributes to developing flood management strategies. MPT aims at finding sets of investments that diversify risk...