Flood Defence 2002 The two volumes of proceedings contain the keynote and invited lectures and selected papers presented in the Second International Symposium on Flood Defence held in Beijing, China on September 10-13, 2002. The Symposium provided a forum for reviewing the state-of-the-art of studies on flooding and engineering and non-engineering strategies for f... more »lood control. It focused on a better understanding of flooding and environmental problems, different perspectives evolved, climate change and its impact on extreme hydrological events, and reporting new approaches to the study and flood control strategies.« less