Flood Hazards, GIS Applications and Flood Risk Management

Abstract

This book constitutes the proceedings of the PHEFRA International Workshop (Palaeofloods, Historical Floods and Climatic Variability: Applications in Flood Risk Assessment). The Workshop was held in Barcelona, on the 16-19th of October, 2002, at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (CSIC). The principal sponsor of the Workshop was the European Commission, through contract no. EVG1-CT-2002-60001. Additional funding was provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant no. REN2001-4607-E/RIES), the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). In addition the Workshop was supported by the following organisations: the University of Barcelona; IGBP-PAGES (Spain); the INQUA Commission on Global Continental Palaeohydrology (GLOCOPH); the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS); the Spanish Geomorphological Society; AMHY/FRIEND; and UNESCO. Administrative support was provided by the Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales (CSIC, Madrid) with special thanks to Clara Hervas. The organisers would like to thank all the people who made the Workshop a great success, especially the students of the University of Barcelona and CSIC (Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales), and the Director and staff of the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (CSIC).