Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world's people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that can affect lives and property. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topi.

Flood processes and hazards / Alberto Viglione and Magdalena Rogger -- Measuring and mapping flood processes / Guy J.-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Jeffrey C. Neal and Konstantinos M. Andreadis -- Paleoflood hydrology: reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges / Gerardo Benito and Andr�es D�iez-Herrero -- Global and low-cost topographic data to support flood studies / Kun Yan, Jeffrey C. Neal, Dimitri P. Solomatine and Giuliano Di Baldassarre -- Vulnerability and exposure in developed and developing countries: large scale assessments / S.F. Balica, Q. Dinh and I. Popescu -- Integrated risk assessment of water-related disasters / Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed, Animesh K. Gain, Claudio Biscaro and Stefano Balbi -- KULTURisk methodology application: Ubaye Valley (Barcelonnette, France) / Micah Mukolwe, Guiliano Di Baldassarre and Thom Bogaard -- Floods and storms practical exercises / Amy Dabrowa, Jeffrey C. Neal and Paul D. Bates -- Drought monitoring and assessment: remote sensing and modeling approaches for the famine early warning systems networks / G.B. Senay, N.M. Velpuri, S. Bohms, M. Budde, C. Young, J. Rowland and J.P. Verdin -- Hydrological modeling for drought assessment / Shreehar Maskey and Patricia Trambauer.