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March 27, 2017 | Earth Sciences

By Gerard Brugnot

Spatial research is an more and more very important software for detecting and fighting a number of danger and situation phenomena corresponding to floods in a geographical quarter. This booklet concentrates on examples of prevention but additionally provides obstacle regulate suggestion and functional case studies. a few chapters deal with city functions during which vulnerabilities are focused in zone; others handle extra rural parts with extra scattered phenomena.

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