Download or read book Floods, from Defence to Management written by Jos van Alphen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods are natural events, but when they impact on human environments, they turn into disasters which disrupt society. The last decades have seen an alarming increase in the number of major floods and associated damage on every continent. The impact is more severe due to population growth and settlement in flood prone areas, climate change and disr