Wörterbuch Hochwasserschutz/Dictionnaire de la protection contre les crues/Dizionario della protezione contro le piene/Dictionary of Flood Protection

Year of publication2003
Author(s)Roberto Loat
Co-authorsElmar Meier
Publisher(s)Bundesamt für Umwelt, BAFU
Website: http://www.bwg.admin.ch/
PublisherHaupt Verlag
Place of publicationBerne/Stuttgart/Vienna
ISBN/ISSN3-258-06536-5
Number of pages424
Languagede, en, fr, it
PriceCHF: 68.00 / EUR: 45.00
Purchasehttp://verlagsshop.haupt.ch/100/con_liste
Page(s)424

The dictionary of flood protection, published by the Swiss Federal Office for Water and Geology and the Swiss Federal Chancellery, contains 424 pages with 1500 specialist terms, systematically arranged into chapters on Hydrology/Hydraulics, Geomorphology, Risk and Catastrophe Management, and Hydraulic Engineering. The entries include definitions, synonyms, a user's guide, and references to related terms. The dictionary also includes a CD-ROM.