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

Flood damage survey and assessment : new insights from research and practice / Daniela Molinari, Scira Menoni, Francesco Ballio, editors.

"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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Other Authors: Molinari, Daniela (Editor), Menoni, Scira (Editor), Ballio, Francesco (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Washingston, D.C. : Wiley ; American Geophysical Union, 2017.
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 228.
Subjects:
Flood damage.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Flood damage
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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