Climate Change and Flood Risk Management discusses and problematises the integration of adaptation to climate change in flood risk management. -- The book explores adaptation to climate change in relation to flood risk events in advanced industrial states. It provides examples of how flood risk...

"This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources--forests. Forests have not played a major role in rural studies thus far, however they...