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information about flood hazards and flood
damage.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/geog/floods
The Dartmouth College Flood Remote Sensing
Page is the home page of the Global Flood
Monitoring and Analysis Project.
http://www.floodplain.org
Includes sections containing full-text articles, a
calendar of upcoming events, an index of
publications, and a list of US contacts in floodplain
management.
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/
sites.html
The Natural Hazards Center at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, USA, includes an extensive
annotated list of useful sites on floods and other
natural hazards.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/gem/fhrc.htm
Middlesex University's Flood Hazard Research
Centre has information on flood damage, hazard
mitigation strategies, river and water management,
and lists of publications.
http://www.environment_agency.gov.uk
The Environment Agency has responsibility for
flood defence in England and Wales. See this page
for details of its role.
http://www.cres.anu.edu.au
The Centre for Resources and Environmental
Studies (CRES) at the Australian National
University is the foremost centre in the Southern
hemisphere for flood hazard studies.

Chan, N.W. and Parker, D.J. (1996) Response to dynamic
flood hazard factors in peninsular Malaysia. Geographical
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Ericksen, N.J. (1986) Creating Flood Disasters? Water and Soil
Miscellaneous Publication No. 77. Wellington, New
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Green, C.H. and Penning-Rowsell, E.C. (1989) Flooding
and the quantification of intangibles. Journal of the
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27-30.
Handmer, J. and Dovers, S.R. (1996) A typology of
resilience: rethinking institutions for sustainable
development. Industrial and Environmental Crisis 9(4),
482-511.
Handmer, J. and Penning-Rowsell, E.C. (eds) (1990) Hazard
and the Communication of Risk. Aldershot, UK: Gower.
Hollis, G.E. (1988) Rain, roads, roofs and runoff: hydrology
in the cities. Geography 73, 9-18.
Hood, C. and Jones, D.K.C. (eds) (1996) Accident and
Design: Contemporary Debates in Risk Management.
London: UCL Press.
Hood, C., Jones, D.K.C., Pigeon, N.F., Turner, B.A., Gibson,
R., Bevan-Davies, C., Funtowicz, S.O., Horlick-Jones,
T., McDermid, J.A., Penning-Rowsell, E.C., Ravetz,
J.R., Sime, J.D. and Wells, C. (1992) Risk management.
In Royal Society Study Group: Risk: Analysis, Perception
and Management. London: Royal Society.
Kates, R.W. (1962) Hazard and choice perception in
floodplain management. Research Paper No. 78,
Department of Geography, University of Chicago.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
(1998) Project Appraisal Guidance. London: MAFF.
Mitchell, J.K., Devine, N. and Jagger, K. (1989) A
contextual model of natural hazard. Geographical Review
79(4), 391-409.
Newson, M.D. (1989) Flood effectiveness in river basins:
progress in Britain in a decade of drought. In K.Beven
and P.Carling (eds) Floods: Hydrological, Sedimentological
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Nicholls, R.J. (1995) Coastal megacities and climate
change. GeoJournal 37(3), 369-79.
Parker, D.J. (1995) Floodplain development policy in
England and Wales. Applied Geography 15(4), 341-63.
Parker, D.J. and Penning-Rowsell, E.C. (1983) Flood
hazard research in Britain. Progress in Human Geography
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Pelling, M. (1998) Participation, social capital and
vulnerability to urban flooding in Guyana. Journal of
International Development 10, 469-86.

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