Flood damage survey and assessment : new insights from research and practice /

"Several scholars across the globe identified the present lack of high quality damage data as the main constraint to efficient risk mitigation. The need for a systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events come into light, thus the aim being the creation of complete and r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Molinari, Daniela (Editor ), Menoni, Scira (Editor ), Ballio, Francesco (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : Washingston, D.C. : Wiley ; American Geophysical Union, 2017.
Colección:Geophysical monograph ; 228.
Temas:
Flood damage.
Dommages causés par les inondations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Flood damage
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Overview of the United Nations Global Loss Data Collection Initiative / Julio Serje
  • 2. Technical recommendations for standardizing loss data / Daniele Ehrlich, Christina Corbane, and Tom De Groeve
  • Part II. Data storage
  • 3. Overview of loss data storage at global scale / Roberto Rudari, Marco Massabò, and Tatiana Bedrina
  • 4. Direct and insured flood damage in the United States / Melanie Gall
  • 5. HOWAS21, the German flood damage database / Heidi Kreibich, Annegret Thieken, Sören-Nils Haubrock, and Kai Schröter
  • Part III. Data collection
  • 6. Best practice of data collection at the local scale: The RISPOSTA Procedure / Nicola Berni, Daniela Molinari, Francesco Ballio, Guido Minucci, and Carolina Arias Munoz
  • 7. Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage
  • Experiences with telephone surveys / Annegret Thieken, Heidi Kreibich, Meike Müller, and Jessica Lamond
  • 8. Utilizing post-disaster surveys to understand the social context of floods
  • Experiences from Northern Australia / David King and Yetta Gurtner
  • 9. Understanding crowdsourcing and volunteer engagement: case studies for hurricanes, data processing, and floods / Shadrock Roberts and Tiernan Doyle
  • Part IV. Data analysis
  • 10. After the flood is before the next flood: the post-event review capability methodology developed by Zurich's Flood Resilience Alliance / Michael Szoenyi, Kanmani Venkateswaran, Adriana Keating, and Karen MacClune
  • 11. Defining complete post-flood scenarios to support risk mitigation strategies / Scira Menoni, Funda Atun, Daniela Molinari, Guido Minucci, and Nicola Berni
  • 12. Rebuild and improve Queensland: continuous improvement after the 2010-2011 floods in Australia / Brendan Moon
  • 13. Forensic disaster analysis of flood damage at commercial and industrial firms / Martin Dolan, Nicholas Walliman, Shahrzad Amouzad, and Ray Ogden
  • Part IV. Information and communication technology tools
  • 14. Response to flood events: the role of satellite-based emergency mapping and the experience of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service / Andrea Ajmar, Piero Boccardo, Marco Broglia, Jan Kucera, Fabio Giulio-Tonolo, and Annett Wania
  • 15. Data collection and analysis at local scale: the experience within the Poli-RISPOSTA Project / Carolina Arias Munoz, Mirjana Mazuran, Guido Minucci, Danilo Ardagna, and Maria Brovelli
  • Conclusions / Daniela Molinari, Scira Menoni, and Francesco Ballio
  • Index.

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