Published to mark the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Floods is the third volume in a series of major works on hazards and disasters world-wide. Bringing together leading researchers world-wide, each volume in the series spans the breadth of disaster-prone regions and the spectrum of themes at the core of current research. Each volume is introduced and collated by specialist editors renowned in the field. Floods occur in most parts of the world, and range from being welcomed annual occurrences which replenish nutrients in the soils, to, at the opposite end of the scale,...