Flood is one of the common natural phenomena anywhere. In the second half of 2011, Thailand has recently faced with the … most devastating flood of her modern history. More than 3,330 national highways are damaged by this flood. Some roads are … Thailand highway maintenance management system. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 …

what disaster research literature has labeled ‘disaster subcultures’ or a set of cultural (tangible and intangible) tools … at discerning if the disaster subculture concept has contemporary relevance in the Netherlands, particularly with respect … to flooding, and if so, whether applying this lens would reveal more about the nature of existing disaster subcultures …

flood extent and pattern which helps in the vulnerability assessment and also to find out the intensity of damages to … facilitate future planning and management. The study area is a part of the Nuna river basin, which suffers from the flood … of 2003 and 18, 20, 22 and 24 September of 2008 were used to monitor the flood extent, duration and depth. The threshold …

weather events, effective flood prevention and management in river floodplains may make a significant contribution. The land …, as well as the quantity and size of the flood pulses in the river. The paper is focused on the role played by … ecohydrology in flood risk management and water quality. From the ecohydrological perspective, river floodplains are extremely …

prerequisite of flood disaster prevention and mitigation. In this study, the characteristics of historical floods in Poyang Lake … Lake mainly occurred in mid- and late July. The inter-annual variation of highest flood stages and duration showed a long … occurred later and later during the last 60 years. At the decadal scale, the flood situations were most severe in 1990s while …

The public generally expects restoring natural flood retention as an effective flood mitigation measure, given that …-year flood event), only minimal or even negative effects on the damping of flood peaks could be detected for some cross … sections. The delay of the flood peak in the historic scenario, however, conforms with general expectations. Two main hydraulic …

farmers of a flood-affected area of rural India cope with this hazard. Primary data for the study were collected during the … months of November and December 2010 from randomly selected two hundred flood-affected households under rice–wheat ecosystem … in the flood-prone Somb basin of Haryana state in India. The study area is highly susceptible to floods with a major …

monthly indices. The monthly indices of rainfall, wet days, rainfall intensity, temperature, and flood and landslide … approach permits the simultaneous analysis of changes in flood and landslide occurrence. Copyright Springer Science …

emergency-preparedness and flood-planning exercises. In order to ensure scientific defensibility and necessary levels of detail …

analysis. However, apart from examining the intrinsic characteristics of a basin, realistic flood hazard assessment requires … rainfall conditions and flood triggering in the area. For this purpose, precipitation data from a network of five rain gauges … rainfall measures, only peak storm intensity presents a significant correlation with flood triggering, and a rainfall threshold …