Documents and publications

1: Changing Contexts -- 1. Living in a changing world -- 2. The challenges of water governance -- 3. Water and human settlements in an urbanizing world -- Section 2: Changing Natural Systems -- 4. The state of the resource -- 5. Coastal and freshwater

Physical processes related to floods. Prehistoric and historic floods. Floods: case studies. Geomorphological and environmental questions related to floods. Statistical analysis of floods. Statistical analysis and forecasting. The predictability and

Content: The project on Bangladesh floods: background, framework and key questions; Floods in Bangladesh: understanding the basic principles; Data situation: the need to compromise; The history of flooding in the lowlands of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and

With the tragedy of New Orleans still on the focus of the world’s media, this highly topical book combines rigorous analysis of the human health impacts of flooding with an appraisal of individual and societal response to those risks, and sets these

This final report provides a breakdown of damages per parish and by industry. The preliminary assessments, as well as the responses from International Development Partners were instrumental in crafting strategies to respond appropriately to the crisis.

Ce rapport final porte sur l’évaluation et la prévention du risque de tsunami dans les côtes françaises, en métropole et en Outre-mer.

This handbook aims at being used as guide to reduce the impact of disasters in cultural heritage properties. It describes the principles and the essential phases for planning a framework of risk preparedness for different forms of cultural heritage. The

This report provides a summary of data collected in the flood assessment.