Flood Risk Assessment and Management

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Preface.- 1. Hydrological aspects of risk management.- Uncertainties in weather forecast - reasons and handling.- 3. Interpolation of precipitation for flood modelling.- 4. Framing uncertainties in flood forecasting with ensembles.- 5. Design of artificial neural networks for flood forecasting.- 6. Advances in regionalising flood probabilities.- 7. Rainfall generators for application in flood studies.- 8. Copulas - New Risk Assessment Methodology for Dam Safety.- 9. Hydraulic Modelling.- 10. Groundwater - the Subterranean Part of Flood Risk.- 11. Quantification of socio-economic flood risks.- 12. Application of scenarios and multi-criteria decision making tools in flood polder planning.- Index.