Flood Risk Assessment and Flood Control Safety Decision-Making

Author: Jiang Shuhai Fan Ziwu
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is a new theoretical study on disaster prevention and mitigation. It consists of 13 chapters, comprehensively and systematically elaborating on flood disaster risk assessment, risk rate calculation models, flood storage risk rate estimation, flood channel flow risk rate calculation, embankment engineering flood control risk rate assessment, flood disaster loss assessment system and calculation methods, flood control safety decision-making, permissible risk decision-making, and safety decision-making for flood control systems. The book is comprehensive in content, rich in data, and well-argued. It provides insightful explanations of new concepts, theories, and analytical and calculation methods in flood control and disaster mitigation, offering valuable guidance and practical value for disaster prevention and mitigation efforts across various regions in China to achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and floods. This book is suitable for study and use by water resources management departments at all levels and engineering technicians in various regions, as well as for reference by faculty and students in water conservancy institutions.