Floodplain risk management : proceedings of an international workshop on floodplain risk management/Hiroshima/11-13 November 1996.

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Special lectures: Reducing flood losses in the United States -- Requirements for crisis management in flood control plans and the design of flood control facilities -- Technical sessions: Flood control countermeasures in Japan -- The new natural risks mitigation programme in France -- Past and recent developments of flood control in the Tone River -- Perception and reality concerning the 1993 Mississippi River flood: an engineers' perspective -- Risk assessment and management of potential flooding in the Netherlands -- High tide disaster in the Ohtagawa River Delta in Hiroshima: extent of the disaster and lessons learned from Typhoon 9119 -- Hiroshima as river and storm surge flooding-prone area -- Levee system along the Upper Mississippi River -- Risk management of the Yodogawa River during the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake -- Strategy for dike-breaching and floodplain risk management in the Yellow River -- Flood protection by re-establishment in the floodplains along the Upper Rhine, the integrated Rhine-Programme of the Land Baden-Wurttemberg -- The history of flood control and the floodway projects of the Hiikawa -- Control of flooding water and improvement of evacuation system for floodplain management -- Prediction of flood-induced flows in urban residential areas and damage reduction -- Flood mitigation and flood risk management in Malaysia -- Emergency management for urban disasters due to severe storm: lessons learned from Typhoon 9119 disaster -- Flood warning plan for ice-affected flooding of the Niagara River -- Measures taken after the 1994 Ohtagawa River system water pollution incident -- Developments in floodplain risk management decision-making in England and Wales -- Flood control and environmental considerations of the Niagara River -- Underground drainage river system project promoted by the Tokyo metropolitan governement -- Transmission of disaster information and inhabitants' reaction: Kagoshima flood disaster in 1993