LibGuides: Soil/Waterways/Flood Plains: Flood Plains

Subject Headings

Floodplains

Flood Control

Flood Risk Assessment

Flood Forecasting

Architecture Environmental Aspects

Architecture Climate

Floodplain Management

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GB 500-5030 Natural disasters

TC 530-537 River protective works, Flood control

Maps, Data, and GIS

GIS & Geovisualization - A guide to some of the mapping resources available through the University of Manitoba Libraries.

Data Visualization - a guide for data visualization support.

GISHub Access

Sign-in to ArcGIS Online

Access Libraries GIS data

Winnipeg Historical Maps - This Flickr collection includes maps covering Winnipeg transportation, growth and boundaries, zoning and planning, and geological engineering.

Workshops

Data Visualization Workshops on GitHub.

For more information please contact:
Meg Miller
GIS & Data Visualization Librarian Elizabeth Dafoe Library Meg.Miller@umanitoba.ca

Books

Design for Flooding
Call Number: NA 2541 W38 2011
Flood Hazards
Call Number: TC 530 F5724 2012 Engineering
Flood risk assessment and management
Call Number: Electronic Resource

Finding Articles

CAB Abstracts
The CAB Abstracts database covers the subject of agriculture. It includes: agronomy, biotechnology, crop protection, animal science, agricultural economics, environmental degradation and remediation, forestry, genetics, herbicides, irrigation, leisure, recreation and tourism, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, rural development, soil science and veterinary medicine.
GEOBASE
GEOBASE, from Elsevier Science Ltd., provides comprehensive bibliographic references to important journals in the fields of physical and human geography, geology and the earth sciences, mineralogy, oceanography, ecology and development studies. It is the only database in these fields to include abstracts. International in scope, GEOBASE provides valuable coverage from over 2,000 primary journals, books, monographs, reports, and theses.
GeoRef
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 60,000 references a year. GeoRef contains over 1.8 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to current and retrospective information from approximately 8,700 international journals. A unique feature of Web of Science is the ability to find articles that cite a previously published work. Web of Science includes an expanded version of Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Over 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. Access to research from 1956 through 2008 with a new year added every year provides a rich historical foundation for current work across the Geosciences. The University of Manitoba does not have access to Current Releases.

Soil/Waterways/Flood Plains: Flood Plains

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