Hydrometeorological Hazards (eBook)

Philippe Quevauviller began his career as a researcher in chemical oceanography and holds 2 PhDs and an HDR. He then joined the European Commission as a Research Programme and Policy Officer. He is also Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

Series Preface

Preface

The Series Editor - Philippe Quevauviller

List of Contributors

PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE

1.1 A historic experience for a strengthened resilience. European societies in front of hydro meteors 16th-20th centuries
Emmanuel Garnier

1.2 Current understanding of climate change impacts on extreme events
Richard Harding, Nick Reynart, and Alison Kay

1.3 Common features to different hydrometeorological events and knowledge integration
Barbara Zanuttigh

1.4 Science-Policy interfacing
Philippe Quevauviller

PART TWO: POLICY SETTINGS

2.1 When Science meets Policy: Enhancing governance and management of disaster risks
Demetrio Innocenti

2.2 Hydrometeorological extremes and science-policy interface: IPCC
Zbysezk Kundewicz

2.3 A snapshot of EU and international policies relevant to hydrometeorological events
Philippe Quevauviller

PART THREE: OUTLINE OF SCIENTIFIC FEATURES

3.1 Hydroinformatics and its role in flood management
Philipe Gourbesville

3.2 Droughts: how to be prepared for the hazard?
Henny van Lanen

3.3 Drought in the light of climate change in the Mediterranean region
Ana Iglesias and Luis Garrote

3.4 Prediction of storm impacts on beach and dune systems
Paolo Ciavola, Oscar Ferreira, Ap Van Dongeren, Jaap Van Thiel de Vries, Clara Armaroli, and Mitchell Harley

PART FOUR: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS

4.1 Assessing the costs of natural hazards - State of the art and the way forward
Volker Meyer et al.

4.2 Resilience and adaptation to hydrometeorological hazards
Maureen Fordham, Hugh Deeming, and Åsa Gerger Swartling

PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS

5. Conclusions and outlook
Philippe Quevauviller

Index

"Although the book cannot be comprehensive on this vast research field of hydrometeorological hazards at the interface of science and policy, it does give a proficient overview on the topic and selected hydrometeorological extremes. I very much liked reading this well-written book and am looking forward to the next titles within this series." (Environmental Earth Sciences 2015)