Mechanism of flood forecasting is a complex system, which involves precipitation, drainage characterizes, land use/cover types, ground water and runoff discharge. The application of flood forecasting model require the efficient management of large spatial and temporal datasets, which involves data acquisition, storage, pre-processing and manipulation, analysis and display of model results. The ...

surat is a highly developed, thickly populated cosmopolitan character city with full of various activities going on day and night. any natural calamity which causes loss of lives to property and infrastructure along with effects on industrial processes going on has serious impact on economy of the state. therefore, it becomes highly necessary that flood events are studied and analyzed properly ...

There is an increasing awareness that rivers need more room in order to safeguard flood safety under climate change conditions. Contemporary river management is creating room in the floodplains and allowing, within certain bounds, natural processes of sedimentation and erosion. One of the aims is to restore dynamic conditions, so as to get a sustainable and more diverse river ecosystem that can...

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY WATER RESEARCH & EDUCATION The Great Midwest Flood of 1993 brought the attention of the nation to the challenges it faced in dealing with floods. Over a sixmonth period, the ravages of the flood were shown nightly on television and filled columns in the print media. East–West transportation networks throughout the Midwest were severely disrupted and more than 100,000 peo...

Large-scale floods have the potential to generate substantial economic losses. Within Europe, governments have dealt with these losses in different ways, which may or may not have enhanced adaptability of their societies. In this research we develop a classification of insurance and compensation systems to deal with losses from floods. We suggest that, from the perspective of adaptive capacity ...