Meet the editors

Dr. John Abbot is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia, and has an adjunct research position at the University of Tasmania. He has worked as a research scientist in the industry and universities including Queens University, Canada, the University of Tasmania and Central Queensland University. Dr. Abbot holds BSc (Imperial College), MSc (University of British Columbia), MBiotech (University

of Queensland) and PhD (McGill University) degrees. He has published over 100 articles, including 12 on the application of neural networks to climatic phenomena, particularly rainfall forecasting. His interest in rainfall forecasting was stimulated by the severe flooding in Queensland during 2010/2011, when the inefficiency of official rainfall forecasts using general circulation models became evident.

Dr. Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in Geoscience within CQUniversity's (formerly Central Queensland University) School of Engineering and Technology at its Rockhampton North Campus in Central Queensland, Australia, which is located close to the southern portion of the World Heritage–listed Great Barrier Reef. He holds BSc (Hons) degrees in geology and geography from the University of Tasmania, Australia; an M.Appl.Sc. in Soil

Science from Lincoln University, New Zealand; and a PhD in Earth Science from Massey University, New Zealand. Dr. Hammond and his research students focus on geohazards (mass movement and floods), pedology, hydrogeology of coastal catchments, geomorphology, sedimentology and mine geology within Central Queensland.

**Preface III**

Flood Risk Prediction and Management **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 55**

Flood Risk and the Urban Environment **65**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 87**

Flood Risk Assessment in Housing under an Urban Development Scheme

*by Faustino de Luna Cruz, Oscar A. Fuentes Mariles, Judith Ramos Hernández* 

Flood Risk and Vulnerability of Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia

*by Mohamed Daoudi and Abdoul Jelil Niang*

Simulating Water Flow in Plains

*and Jesús Gracia Sánchez*

Evidence-Based Contingency Planning to Enhance Local Resilience to Flood

Fitting a Generalised Extreme Value Distribution to Four Candidate Annual Maximum Flood Heights Time Series Models in the Lower Limpopo River

*by Miho Ohara, Naoko Nagumo, Badri Bhakta Shrestha and Hisaya Sawano*

Flood Damage Reduction in Land Subsidence Areas by Groundwater

*by Yin-Lung Chang, Jinn-Chuang Yang, Yeou-Koung Tung, Che-Hao Chang* 

**Section 1**

*by Guangwei Huang*

Contents

Management

Disasters

**Section 2**

*and Tung-Lin Tsai*

Basin of Mozambique *by Daniel Maposa*

New Frontiers in Flood Risk Management
