Impact of Urban Floods on Water Quality
Impact of Urban Floods on Water Quality
Alexandros Makarigakis , Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO
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GBPClimate change will increase the occurrence of floods in cities and open areas. As well as the widely documented social and economic impacts of floods, these events can also have a significant and long-lasting impact on water quality. This multidisciplinary edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of floods on water quality, with chapters written by experts on water chemistry, water management, flood risk management, and urban engineering and planning. It presents global case studies, ranging from Australia and Canada to India and China, and includes contributions by scholars from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. It evaluates precautionary measures, such as the need for early warning systems to predict pluvial flood events, and practical solutions involving urban drainage, in the context of the needs of different regions. This book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and professionals working in water management, environmental engineering and urban flooding.
- Provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of floods, covering scientific theory, social-environment assessment and institutional frameworks
- Offers practical solutions to combat the mobilisation of pollutants that result from flooding in urban areas
- Presents a range of global case studies to compare the challenges, impacts and solutions in different parts of the world
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August 2025Hardback
9781107118720
350 pages
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Blanca Jiménez Cisneros and Alexandros K. Makarigakis
- 1. Urbanization process and urban water challenges Changqing Xu, Mingyi Jia, Haifeng Jia, Alexandros K. Makarigakis and Blanca Jiménez Cisneros
- 2. General approaches on urban water challenges Mingyi Jia, Changqing Xu and Haifeng Jia
- 3. Integrating water quality in urban flood risk management: structural approaches Susanne Charlesworth, Daniel Castro-Fresno and Jorge Rodriguez-Hernandez
- 4. Impacts of urban drainage management on water quality following extreme rainfall Antonio Lastra De La Rubia
- 5. Online forecast model for urban flooding and induced water contamination Simon Berkhahn, Thomas Graf, Insa Neuweiler, Aaron Peche, Robert Sämann, Lothar Fuchs, Stefan Krämer and Julian Wahl
- 6. Identifying the contaminant levels in river floods that occurred in the past Anna Lintern, Lauren McDonald, Brent B. Wolfe, Roland I. Hall, Ana Deletic, Paul Leahy, Hendrik Heijnis, Atun Zawadzki, Patricia Gadd and David T. McCarthy
- 7. Coping with water supply and water quality problems during floods and their management C. K. Jain and Rakesh Kumar
- 8. Impact of urban flooding on water quality in India with special reference to Mumbai Kapil Gupta
- 9. The June 2016 Seine river flood, effects on the sanitation system operation at the heart of the Paris urban area and impact on the Seine river quality Jean-Pierre Tabuchi, Béatrice Blanchet, Vincent Rocher and Sheila Aboulouard
- 10. 'The Sponge City' initiative in China Haifeng Jia, Te Xu and Zheng Wang
- 11. Conclusions Blanca Jiménez Cisneros and Alexandros K. Makarigakis
- Index.
