Flood warnings : issues and practice in total system design.

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Part I: Current issues in total flood warning system design -- Flood warnings, and flood hazard management in Britain / John Handmer -- The total flood warning system: concept and practice / Chas Keys -- Part II: Practice in the United Kingdom -- Aims and objectives of flood warnings from the perspective of the flood forecaster / Chris Haggett -- Flood warnings: dissemination in the National Rivers Authority / John Fitzsimons -- The UK Environment Agency: North East Region's river flow forecasting and warning system / Mark Tinnion and Bob Moore -- Development of a flood warning system for the River Tay catchment, Scotland / John Anderson -- Operation of the UK storm tide warning service / Ian Pratt -- Part III: International practice -- Flood management in the Netherlands / Michel Bezuyen, Menno van Duin and P. Leenders -- Flood warning in Australia / Jim Elliott -- Flood warning systems and early notification procedures in Denver, Colorado / Kevin Stewart -- Warnings in the context of flood hazard management in Malaysia / Ngai Weng Chan -- Development of a flood forecasting, warning and response system for Bangladesh / Peter Walsh, A. Maih, G. H. Jorgensen, and A. Karmal -- Current flood warning issues in China / J. Tong and Y. Xiaogan -- Part IV: Issues in system design and operation -- Informative flood warnings: occupant response to risk, threat and loss of place / Jonathan Sime -- Impacts of scientific and technological developments on warnings for sea flooding / Dominic Reeve -- Flood warnings and the local community context / Anne-Michele Ketteridge and Maureen Fordham