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Water Resources of Chile

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Abstract

Due to its particular geographic and climatic characteristics, Chile is periodically affected by floods that in many cases have produced significant socioeconomic impacts. Furthermore, there is a national concern about whether or not the frequency and magnitude of these events will increase in the future due to climate change. This chapter presents different approaches for flood modeling and characterization used in Chile, as not only the most common fluvial and pluvial floods take place, but also events related to anthropic intervention, volcanic activity, landslides, snowmelt, and glacial activity. Then, some of the relevant historical flood events occurred in Chile are described. Finally, strategies to cope with floods are presented and discussed, with some of them having acquired increasing importance under the National Policy for Disasters Risk Management recently promulgated.

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  3. CIGIDEN, Centro de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastres, Santiago, Chile

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Gironás, J., Bunster, T., Chadwick, C., Fernández, B. (2021). Floods. In: Fernández, B., Gironás, J. (eds) Water Resources of Chile. World Water Resources, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56901-3_7

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