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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/85480| Title: | Floods |
| Authors: | Muzeau, Jean-Pierre |
| Keywords: | Floods -- Risk assessment -- Europe Flood damage prevention Structural engineering Flood control |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Department of Building & Civil Engineering |
| Citation: | Muzeau, J. P. (2008). Floods. In Mazzolani, F. M., Mistakidis, E., Borg, R. P., Byfield, M., De Matteis, G., Dubina.,..Wang, Y. (Eds.), Urban habitat constructions under catastrophic events: COST Action C26 (pp. 402-407). Malta: University of Malta. Dept. of Building & Civil Engineering. |
| Abstract: | ▪ Floods are usually due to a volume of water exceeding the total storage capacity of a basin.
As a result, a part of the water flows or spreads outside from its normal area. ▪ The worst floods are water overflows associated to high-water stages where water flows out from its natural or artificial banks, submerging and inundating more or less large lowlying areas of normally dry lands. They represent common and mostly natural disasters. ▪ Floods happen when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water. Then, the water runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or kept in natural ponds, lakes or man-made reservoirs. ▪ Floods are usually local, short-lived events that can happen suddenly and sometimes with little or no warning. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/85480 |
| ISBN: | 9789990944402 |
| Appears in Collections: | Urban habitat constructions under catastrophic events : COST Action C26 |
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