Integrated Flood Management

Author : Paul F. Hudson,Hans Middelkoop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Abhas K. Jha,Robin Bloch,Jessica Lamond
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821388662

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Cities and Flooding by Abhas K. Jha,Robin Bloch,Jessica Lamond Pdf

Urban flooding is an increasing challenge today to the expanding cities and towns of developing countries. This Handbook is a state-of-the art, user-friendly operational guide that shows decision makers and specialists how to effectively manage the risk of floods in rapidly urbanizing settings ? and within the context of a changing climate.

Author : Global Water Partnership,Associated Programme on Flood Management,World Meteorological Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Flood control
ISBN : OCLC:248045414

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Integrated Flood Management : B Concept Paper by Global Water Partnership,Associated Programme on Flood Management,World Meteorological Organization Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Flood control
ISBN : WISC:89108482563

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Integrated Flood Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000684728

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Integrated Flood Risk Management by Kuniyoshi Takeuchi Pdf

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have been intensified by climate change and have generated unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows worldwide. It presents recent conceptual developments in disasters, risk and resilience, and surveys UN policies on environment and development as well as disaster management. Sustainable and resilient development requires an integrated approach and human empowerment. Japan provides a useful example of effective flood management and disaster recovery in its current strategies for river and basin integrated flood management. Very few English-language books present up-to-date Japanese experiences for students and professionals in the context of global trends, relevant to a time of climate change and with global application. • Outlines an integrated approach to flood risk management in the context of UN initiatives • Details Japanese good practice developed through culture and the needs of a changing society Integrated Flood Risk Management is ideal for professionals working for environmental agencies, hydrologists and engineers, as well as students of disaster management and water resources development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Associated Programme
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822035409689

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Economic Aspects of Integrated Flood Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Associated Programme on Flood Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Flood control
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030034498503

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Legal and Institutional Aspects of Integrated Flood Management by Associated Programme on Flood Management Pdf

This publication aims to raise the awareness of policy-makers about the need for an appropriate legal framework for Integrated Flood Management (IFM). Additionally it intends to motivate and enable flood practitioners, stakeholder groups (including actors of the civil society involved in public opinion building such as NGOs and the media), to engage in dialogue with policy-makers about the legal requirements and best approach to a balanced legal framework for IFM.--Publisher's description.

Author : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781781006672

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Climate Change and Flood Risk Management by E. Carina H. Keskitalo Pdf

Taken together, the studies show that integration of adaptation in flood risk and emergency management may differ strongly _ not only with risk, but with a number of institutional and contextual factors, including capacities and priorities in the speci

Author : Richard Ashley,Stephen Garvin,Erik Pasche,Andreas Vassilopoulos,Chris Zevenbergen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203945988

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Advances in Urban Flood Management by Richard Ashley,Stephen Garvin,Erik Pasche,Andreas Vassilopoulos,Chris Zevenbergen Pdf

One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones. Current measures to mitigate flood impacts, particularly in the urban environment, are based on previously-planned flood risk intervals and no longer provide sufficient protection. Being prepared for unexpected changes and extreme flood events asks for a paradigm shift in current strategies to avoid and manage flood disasters. In order to stem the increasing impact of urban floods, a major rethink of current planning and flood management policies and practice is required, taking into account different spatial and temporal scales. This book addresses a broad spectrum of relevant issues in the emerging field of urban flood management. It may act as a stimulus for further research and development in urban flood management while informing and engaging stakeholders in the promotion of integrated and cooperative approaches in water management. An interdisciplinary approach which will be of interest to all those who are active in water, risk and urban management.

Author : Bob Freitag,Susan Bolton,Frank Westerlund,Julie Clark
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610911320

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Floodplain Management by Bob Freitag,Susan Bolton,Frank Westerlund,Julie Clark Pdf

A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance Program, which estimates that flooding causes at least six billion dollars in damages every year. Like rivers after a rainstorm, the financial costs are rising along with the toll on residents. And the worst is probably yet to come. Most scientists believe that global climate change will result in increases in flooding. The authors of this book present a straightforward argument: the time to stop a flooding rivers is before is before it floods. Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with our societal capabilities. It describes our present flood management practices, which are often based on dam or levee projects that do not incorporate the latest understandings about river processes. And it suggests that a better solution is to work with the natural tendencies of the river: retreat from the floodplain by preventing future development (and sometimes even removing existing structures); accommodate the effects of floodwaters with building practices; and protect assets with nonstructural measures if possible, and with large structural projects only if absolutely necessary.

Author : Gareth Pender,Hazel Faulkner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.

Author : Associated Programme on Flood Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Flood control
ISBN : WISC:89094328630

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Legal and Institutional Aspects of Integrated Flood Management by Associated Programme on Flood Management Pdf

Floods and law: two topics that at first glance do not seem to have many obvious connections. Yet the way we deal with floods is partly expressed and governed through laws at various levels of society reaching from the local to the international level. The publication contains four case studies from India, Japan, Serbia and Switzerland to provide policy and law-makers as well as flood managers insight into how the issue of floods has been addressed in different legal systems around the world. The case studies have been compiled by leading experts from the respective countries and are published in conjunction with a publication that discusses and describes the legal and institutional aspects of integrated flood management.--Publisher's description.

Author : Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1772 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203883020

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Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice by Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop Pdf

Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Across the European Union, flood management policy is changing in response to the EU Directive on the ass

Author : Jochen Schanze,Evzen Zeman,Jiri Marsalek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045981

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Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures by Jochen Schanze,Evzen Zeman,Jiri Marsalek Pdf

Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection led to limited success especially during recent extreme events. Therefore, an integrated flood risk management is required which takes into consideration both the hydrometeorogical and the societal processes. Moreover, real effects of risk mitigation measures have to be critically assessed. The book draws a comprehensive picture of all these aspects and their interrelations. It furthermore provides a lot of detail on earth observation, flood hazard modelling, climate change, flood forecasting, modelling vulnerability, mitigation measures and the various dimensions of management strategies. In addition to local and regional results of science, engineering and social science investigations on modelling and management, transboundary co-operation of large river catchments are of interest. Based on this, the book is a valuable source of the state of the art in flood risk management but also covers future demands for research and practice in terms of flood issues.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251384589

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Integrated flood management for resilient agrifood systems and rural development by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This report presents a perspective on the impacts of flooding in rural areas and how to address them in an integrated way that delivers multiple long-term benefits for people (food, water, and economic security) and nature. The challenges faced by rural communities are illustrated and a strategic approach to flood management is presented. The approach advocated is based on a paradigm of planning that connects the short and long term, seeks to simultaneously manage flood risk to people, their agrifood systems, related livelihoods and the economy, while promoting the positive (and necessary) role floods play in maintaining productive agriculture (and aquaculture) and ecosystem health. In doing so, the approach embeds the concepts of disaster risk reduction (DRR) that are integral to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, which contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the crucial need to progress at pace towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The report highlights how flood management practice has evolved throughout history largely in response to flood events. This heuristic approach has yielded some important advances in both policy and planning. Central to this has been the shift from a reactive emergency-based response towards a proactive approach aimed at reducing and managing flood risks. There is however more to do. Recognizing that rural areas have received disproportionately less attention, and current approaches to planning and management are less well established in rural areas compared to urban areas (Asian Development Bank, 2018), a small number of recommendations are set to help make more rapid progress towards flood resilience in rural settings.