Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding

The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50<sub>th</sub> anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and ident...

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Main Author: Giovanni Seminara (auth)
Other Authors: Gerald Edward Galloway Jr (auth), Luca Solari (auth), Alberto Montanari (auth), Günter Blöschl (auth), Marcelo Horacio Garcia (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Firenze University Press 2017
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