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Climate Change and Hydrological Disasters

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Hydrology of Disasters

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Many regard climate change as a disaster-in-waiting, a view reinforced by society’s evident dependence on systems to protect itself against the vagaries of weather (Ausubel, 1991), and in some instances to exploit them. Professor Obasi, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, opened the 1988 conference on the Hydrology of Disasters with the words, “losses from natural disasters appear to be increasing every year with the growth of population, and we must now consider the complications introduced by climate change” (Starosolsky and Melder, 1989). In this chapter we attempt to answer the embedded questions — what will be the impact of climate change on hydrological disasters? Will they become more or less disastrous, more or less frequent, of greater or lesser magnitude?

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  1. Water Resources Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, 70803-6405, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

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Beran, M.A., Arnell, N.W. (1996). Climate Change and Hydrological Disasters. In: Singh, V.P. (eds) Hydrology of Disasters. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8680-1_3

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