Addresses many issues associated with water and disasters. This text is a global survey - and assessment of the causes, consequences and post-recovery policies - concerning water disasters. It features a discussion of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, as well as major floods and droughts in England, Wales, China and the western United States.

This book was previously published as a special issue of "International Journal of Water Resources Development."

1. Water and Disasters -- Crafting Creative Solutions / Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Norio Okada
2. Promoting Disaster Resilient Communities: The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the Resulting Indian Ocean Tsunami / Jason K. Levy and Chennat Gopalakrishnan
3. Floods as Catalysts for Policy Change: Historical Lessons from England and Wales / Clare L. Johnson, Sylvia M. Tunstall and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
4. Quantified Analysis of the Probability of Flooding in the Thames Estuary under Imaginable Worst-case Sea Level Rise Scenarios / R. J. Dawson, J. W. Hall, P.D. Bates and R. J. Nicholls
5. Advances in Decision Support Systems for Flood Disaster Management: Challenges and Opportunities / Jason K. Levy, Chennat Gopalakrishnan and Zhaohui Lin
6. Integrated Risk Management of Flood Disasters in Metropolitan Areas of China / Peijun Shi, Yi Ge, Yi Yuan &
Weiping Guo
7. Rapid Economic Assessment of Flood-Control Failure among the Rio Grande: A Case Study / Zhuping Sheng, Allen Sturdivant, Ari Michelsen and Ron Lacewell
8. Adoption of More Technically Efficient Irrigation Systems as a Drought Response / Eric C. Schuck, W. Marshall Frasier, Robert S. Webb, Lindsey J. Ellingson and Wendy J. Umberger
9. Rainfall Insurance: A Promising Tool for Drought Management / Kimberley A Zeuli and Jerry K. Skees

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