Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Flood as the most serious disaster 1.2 The purpose of flood vulnerability assessment Chapter 2 The Flodd Vulneerability Assessment Approcah 2.1 A typology of floods 2.2 The structurd of a flood disaster system 2.3 The disaster enabling environment 2.4 Disaster drivers 2.5 Disaster beaters 2.6 Disaster bearing Capacity of society Chapter 3 Method for Assessing Flood Vuinerability 3.1 Vulneralility assessment 3.2 Methodolodgy for assessing flood disaster vulneralility 3.3 The principles behind establishing and indicator system 3.4 The application of spatial information technology to Vulnerability assessment Chapter 4 Trial Assessment of the yangtze River 4.1 The natural geography of the Yangtze River 4.2 Major historical floods 4.3 Assessment mehtodogy 4.4 The disaster environment 4.5 Disaster drivers 4.6 Disaster beaeres 4.7 Flood vulnerability zones in Yangtze River basin Chapter 5 Application to Donting Lake …… Chapter 6 Assessment of Dongiting's Vulnerability to Flood Impacts Chapter 7 Results of the Assessment and Suggestions for Policy APPENDIX 1 The Analytical hierarchy process APPENDIX 2 Data Sources and Standards for Dontion Lake Feferences