Disaster Management · TEE · read-chapter
Floods
TEE core · taught concepts and descriptive answers; extended sums are optional
- Floods: definition, causes and classifications
- Why cities flood; the sponge-city idea
- Runoff, urbanisation and the lecture formula
- Channel discharge and the purpose of desilting
- Seven engineering and catchment measures for floods
- Flood mapping, land-use control and floodplain zoning
- Flood impacts, benefits and safe management through the cycle