Flooding And Management Of Large Fluvial Lowlands

Author : Paul F Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139015737

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Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands by Paul F Hudson Pdf

"Large fluvial lowlands are Earth's most distinctive and productive environments but are being rapidly degraded by human activities. Pressure on large rivers and deltas has increased tremendously over past decades because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence for food production This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes, and how these "lessons" can be used to more sustainably manage large rivers and deltas. Surveying a global range of large rivers, including the Mekong, Nile, Sacramento, Danube, Huanghe, among others, the book especially examines management of the Rhine River in the Netherlands and the lower Mississippi in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on sedimentology and hydraulic engineering, which is described in a straightforward writing style accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and river management"--

Author : Paul F. Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521768603

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Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands by Paul F. Hudson Pdf

Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.

Author : Paul F. Hudson,Hans Middelkoop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781493923809

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Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe by Paul F. Hudson,Hans Middelkoop Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, floodplain management of many lowland rivers has taken on new importance because of concerns about the potential for global environmental change to alter floodplain processes, necessitating revised management strategies that minimize flood risk while enhancing environmental attributes of floodplains influenced by local embankments and upstream dams. Recognition of the failure of old perspectives on river management and the need to enhance environmental sustainability has stimulated a new approach to river management. The manner that river restoration and integrated management are implemented, however, requires a case study approach that takes into account the impact of historic human impacts to the system, especially engineering. The river basins examined in this volume provide a representative coverage of the drainage of North America and Europe, taking into account a range of climatic and physiographic provinces. They include the 1) Sacramento (California, USA), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri, USA), 4) Red (Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, USA), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana, USA), 6) Kissimmee (Florida, USA), 7) Ebro (Spain), 8) Rhone (France), 9) Rhine (Netherlands), 10) Danube (Romania), and 11) Volga (Russian Federation) Rivers. The case studies covered in these chapters span a range of fluvial modes of adjustment, including sediment, channel, hydrologic regime, floodplains, as well as ecosystem and environmental associations.

Author : Sujit Mandal,Samrat Majumdar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527556492

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Large Dam and River Dynamics by Sujit Mandal,Samrat Majumdar Pdf

This volume brings together various research articles exploring different aspects of fluvial geomorphology and its role in floodplain management. It considers various geomorphic, quantitative and statistical techniques and methods for addressing fluvial morphodynamics, and details quantitative analysis of morphodynamic variables of river basins. The book also highlights the application of fluvial morphology in the management of land and water resources, as well as human resources of the riverine environment. It will be of interest to researchers and academicians, as well as planners and policy makers for ensuing river basin management and development.

Author : K. M. De Bruijn
Publisher : Delft University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9040726000

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Resilience and Flood Risk Management by K. M. De Bruijn Pdf

Author : Martin Thoms,Ian Fuller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323972055

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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes by Martin Thoms,Ian Fuller Pdf

Resilience and Riverine Landscapes presents contributed chapters from global experts in Riverine Landscapes, making it the most comprehensive reference available on the topic. The book explores why rivers are ideal landscapes to study resilience and why studying rivers from a resilience perspective is important for our biophysical understanding of these landscapes and for society. The book focuses on the biophysical character of resilience in riverine landscapes, providing an interdisciplinary perspective of the structure, function, and interactions of riverine landscapes and the ecosystems they contain. The editors conclude by proposing a research agenda for the future, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary research across a range of spatial and temporal scales and research domains. Presents the resilience of rivers with both a theoretical and applied focus Includes case studies from a wide geographical base, allowing for a full range of viewpoints Showcases how resilience is being incorporated into the study and management of riverine landscapes Includes a transdisciplinary focus on riverine landscapes, from theory to applied, and from biophysical to social-ecological systems

Author : Bruce L. Rhoads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108173780

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River Dynamics by Bruce L. Rhoads Pdf

Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.

Author : Anna Serra-Llobet,G. Mathias Kondolf,Kathleen Schaefer,Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319716727

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Managing Flood Risk by Anna Serra-Llobet,G. Mathias Kondolf,Kathleen Schaefer,Scott Nicholson Pdf

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from ‘flood control’ to ‘flood risk management’, recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability. Rather than rely only on engineering structures to reduce flood magnitude or extent, recent policies emphasize avoiding construction in flood-prone areas (or moving people from floodplains), reducing impacts on exposed populations through early warning systems, and insurance to aid in recovery. Implementing this new approach faces many challenges but also offers opportunities for synergies, as described in this book for a range of large floodplain rivers and smaller urban streams across North America and Europe. This book is unique in presenting the voices of those on the front lines of implementing a new paradigm in flood risk management, each river with a unique set of challenges and opportunities derived from its specific geography as well as differences in governance between the American and European contexts.

Author : Pierre Y. Julien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107462779

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River Mechanics by Pierre Y. Julien Pdf

Completely updated and with three new chapters, this analysis of river dynamics is invaluable for advanced students, researchers and practitioners.

Author : Selina Begum,Marcel J.F. Stive,Jim W. Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402042003

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Flood Risk Management in Europe by Selina Begum,Marcel J.F. Stive,Jim W. Hall Pdf

This valuable edition brings together 25 peer reviewed articles on technical, socio-economic, environmental and policy aspects of flood risk management. Some emerging technologies are presented and several future challenges are identified. Thus the book forms an excellent reference for the engineers, scientists, planners, policy-makers, researchers, insurance industry and all the practitioners involved in flood risk management.

Author : A. Saul
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401116305

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Floods and Flood Management by A. Saul Pdf

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life. These natural disasters highlight the need to further understand the occurrence phenomena, to improve forecasting techniques, and to develop procedures and contingency plans to minimise the flood impact. This volume contains contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Floods and Flood Management held in Florence in November 1992. The volume is timely and provides an important overview for engineers, scientists, managers and researchers of the latest developments in technology, analysis and management.

Author : Flávio César Borba Mascarenhas
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845645601

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Flood Prevention and Remediation by Flávio César Borba Mascarenhas Pdf

Human settlements have grown near watercourses since ancient times. Water supply, irrigation, navigation, wastewater conveyance and city defense are some of the uses that were responsible for this choice. Even floods played an important role, favoring the soil fertilization. Man-made actions, however, especially in urban watersheds, significantly modify the natural water cycle, increasing the magnitude of floods and their potential damages. Consequently, flood damages are one of the most important issues to be dealt with in the present days. Several different studies show that floods are one of the most important natural hazards, with several losses, both in terms of lives and money. Particularly in urban areas, the amplification of floods may cause important economic losses and lead to critical social risks to the cities and their population, when inundation reaches the built environment. This situation is becoming more frequent each day. Recent history shows that urbanization is an inevitable trend and, today, the most part of the world population lives in cities. It is difficult, however, to adequately manage urban flood problems, because flood risk and flood costs are not easy to quantify. Traditionally, flood risk and flood cost assessments face difficulties due to the subjective nature of these evaluations and to the inexistence of standardized methodologies.This book tries to show different techniques and approaches to help in treating flood problems. Chapters 1 and 2 show simplified mathematical modeling of floods and results of multifunctional landscape flood control measures in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The remaining book chapters present remedial works against debris after floods in Venezuela and Measures for Mitigation of Flood areas in Japan. There are also presented studies related with Flood Risk Assessment and Management in Mediterranean Basins. The final chapter shows an interesting study related to the attitudes of residents in the Tokyo Bay area toward flood hazards.

Author : Paul Behrens,David Ehrhardt,Thijs Bosker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Food security
ISBN : 9780198814375

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Food and Sustainability by Paul Behrens,David Ehrhardt,Thijs Bosker Pdf

Food and Sustainability is the first text on this topic to consistently and coherently bring together important concepts from different disciplines to introduce students to a common challenge: food sustainability. The book explores the issues related to our growing demand for food from the perspectives of disciplines ranging from environmental and social sciences, to public health. It examines food as a point of convergence across these disciplines, illustrating the need for a transdisciplinary approach to understand common challenges and opportunities in food systems. The issues discussed are exemplified in several case studies for each chapter, which provide a direct avenue for students to apply the principles and theories set out in each chapter to real-world problems. In addition, 'Food controversy' panels highlight how there is very often no one right answer to the problems being faced, and how different viewpoints and perspectives need to be weighed up alongside each other to come to workable resolutions. Online resources: Food sustainability is augmented by a range of online resources, which include: For students: DT Hyperlinks to extended research readings DT Practice quizzes to support independent study DT Answers to in-text questions. For instructors: DT Downloadable (PowerPoint) figures from the book DT Answer sheets to the end of chapter questions DT Suggested exam questions.

Author : Thomas Hartmann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409418456

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Clumsy Floodplains by Thomas Hartmann Pdf

Extreme floods cause enormous damage in floodplains, which levees cannot prevent. It is hence vital for spatial planning to provide space for water retention in these areas. However, attempts to make the space for rivers to provide retention are generally not very successful. Taking an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, this book proposes a new concept - Large Areas for Temporary Emergency Retention (LATER) - in 'Clumsy Floodplains', as an alternative to levee-based protection.

Author : Gareth Pender,Hazel Faulkner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781444340761

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Flood Risk Science and Management by Gareth Pender,Hazel Faulkner Pdf

Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully planned. Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management; providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the international research community (from research students through to senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood management responsibility in the public sector. By using the concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.