Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Aldo Poiani -- Climatic background to past and future floods in Australia / Barrie Pittock, Debbie Abbs, Ramasamy Suppiah and Roger Jones -- Floods down rivers: from damaging to replenishing forces / Sam Lake, Nick Bond and Paul Reich -- Effects of floods on distribution and reproduction of aquatic birds / Aldo Poiani -- The landscape context of flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin / Andrea Ballinger and Ralph MacNally -- Effect of flooding on the occurrence of infectious disease / Colin R. Wilks, Andrew J. Turner and Joseph Azuolas -- Some economics of floods / John Freebairn -- Tiddalik's travels: the making and remaking of an aboriginal flood myth / John Morton -- Understanding the social impacts of floods in Southeastern Australia / Catherine Allan, Allan Curtis and Nicki Mazur.

Nowhere are floods more paradoxical than in the generally arid Australian continent. This book brings together experts in meteorology, hydrology, limnology, ornithology, landscape ecology, veterinary and medical sciences, economics, anthropology and sociology to synthesize current knowledge on floods, their occurrence, and their consequences for the environment and societies in the Australian context.