Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic: Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and environmental economics, will find this an invaluable resource.
NEW BOOK: With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Dr. Alan Davenport (1932-2009), UWO and ICLR’s past Chairman of Research, and the father of modern wind engineering.
Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic: The main goal of this text is to introduce the systems approach to the disaster management community as an alternative approach that can provide support for interdisciplinary activities involved in the management of disasters. The systems approach draws on the fields of operations research and economics to create skills in solving complex management problems.
