Nature Based Flood Risk Management On Private Land

Author : Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Simon McCarthy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030238421

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Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land by Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Simon McCarthy Pdf

This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more – and mostly privately owned – land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.

Author : Simon McCarthy,Lenka Slavíková,Thomas Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1013274822

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Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land by Simon McCarthy,Lenka Slavíková,Thomas Hartmann Pdf

This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional "grey infrastructures" and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more - and mostly privately owned - land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.; This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Simon McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 3030238431

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Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land by Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Simon McCarthy Pdf

This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional "grey infrastructures" and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more - and mostly privately owned - land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced

Author : Hartmann, Thomas,Slavíková, Lenka,Wilkinson, Mark E.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800379534

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Spatial Flood Risk Management by Hartmann, Thomas,Slavíková, Lenka,Wilkinson, Mark E. Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.

Author : Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Mark E. Wilkinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800379528

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Spatial Flood Risk Management by Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Mark E. Wilkinson Pdf

Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.

Author : Carla S. S. Ferreira,Zahra Kalantari,Thomas Hartmann,Paulo Pereira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030775056

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Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation by Carla S. S. Ferreira,Zahra Kalantari,Thomas Hartmann,Paulo Pereira Pdf

This book provides an overview of the typical nature-based solutions (NBS) used for flood mitigation at different scales and in different areas (e.g. from catchment to hillslope scale; from urban to coastal areas). NBS can provide several ecosystem services, such as water regulation and water quality enhancement, and as such offer relevant technical solutions to complement typical grey infrastructures to mitigate flood hazard and water quality problems. In recent years, political awareness and interest from the scientific community have led to increasing implementation of NBS worldwide. In light of this trend, this book provides valuable insights into the environmental aspects of NBS, particularly their effectiveness for flood and pollution mitigation, and discusses socio-economic aspects related to the implementation of NBS, including regulatory aspects, cost, and citizens’ perceptions of NBS. Compiling the latest research, the book furthers our understanding of the role of NBS for flood mitigation and its relation to environmental aspects, to guide scientists and stakeholders in future NBS projects. It is intended for the scientific community and stakeholders, such as spatial planners and landscape managers. Chapter "Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation and resilience in urban areas" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Lenka Slavíková,Thomas Hartmann,Thomas Thaler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000431049

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Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery by Lenka Slavíková,Thomas Hartmann,Thomas Thaler Pdf

Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a large extent overlooked and the diversity of existing schemes shows that there has been a lack of consensus on how to achieve resilient flood recovery. Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.) might increase flood resilience. The chapters included in this edited volume address the following questions: Shall government relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and, if so, how might they both be coordinated? Where (or how) to decide about build back better incentives and where to go for planned relocation programs? What is the distributional equity of financial schemes for flood recovery, and has it been sufficiently treated? The book covers different approaches to flood recovery schemes with specific intervention rationales in different countries. Empirical evidence provided clearly shows the great diversity of financial flood recovery schemes. This diversity of state-funded schemes, private-based insurance schemes, and hybrids as well as planned relocation schemes indicates a lack of a consistent and strategic approach in flood risk management and flood resilience about flood recovery. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Environmental Hazards.

Author : Thomas Hartmann,Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld,Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick,Tejo Spit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000227543

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Flood Resilience of Private Properties by Thomas Hartmann,Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld,Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick,Tejo Spit Pdf

Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties. Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone zones compound the risks. Protecting all properties to the same standards is ever more challenging. Research has focused on improved planning and adapting publicly-owned infrastructure such as streets, evacuation routes, and retention ponds. However, damages often happen on private land. To realize a flood-resilient city, owners of privately-owned residential houses also need to act. Measures such as mobile barriers and backwater valves or avoiding vulnerable uses in basements can make homes more flood-resilient. But private owners may be unaware of flooding risks or may lack the means and knowledge to act. Incentives may be insufficient, while fragmented or unclear property rights and responsibilities entrench inertia. The challenge is motivating homeowners to take steps. Political and societal systems influence the action citizens are prepared to take and what they expect their governments to do. The responsibility for implementing such measures is shared between the public and the private domain in different degrees in different countries. This book will be of great interest to scholars of water law, property rights, flood risk management and climate adaptation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Water International.

Author : Thomas Thaler,Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Barbara Tempels
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031177637

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Homeowners and the Resilient City by Thomas Thaler,Thomas Hartmann,Lenka Slavíková,Barbara Tempels Pdf

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and recovery time of a system. A shock affects a system to the extent that it becomes vulnerable to the event. This book focus examines how private property-owners might implement such measures or improve their individual coping and adaptive capacity to respond to future events. The book looks at the existence of various planning, legal, financial incentives and psychological factors designed to encourage individuals to take an active role in natural hazard risk management and through the presentation of theoretical discussions and empirical cases shows how urban resilience can be achieved. In addition, the book guides the reader through different conceptual frameworks by showing how urban regions are trying to reach urban resilience on privately-owned land. Each chapter focuses on different cultural, socio-economic and political backgrounds to demonstrate how different institutional frameworks have an impact.

Author : Jessica Lamond,David Proverbs,Namrata Bhattacharya Mis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781839102981

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Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management by Jessica Lamond,David Proverbs,Namrata Bhattacharya Mis Pdf

Pushing the boundaries of flood risk management research, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents pragmatic insights into all areas relating to flood risk. Through its use of dynamic and people-centred paradigms, it explores urban flood management within localities, properties, neighbourhoods and cities.

Author : Todd Bridges,Jeffrey King,Jonathan Simm,Michael Beck,Georganna Collins,Quirjin Lodder,Ram Mohan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737886812

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International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management Executive Summary by Todd Bridges,Jeffrey King,Jonathan Simm,Michael Beck,Georganna Collins,Quirjin Lodder,Ram Mohan Pdf

Author : Shalini Dhyani,Anil Kumar Gupta,Madhav Karki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811547126

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Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies by Shalini Dhyani,Anil Kumar Gupta,Madhav Karki Pdf

Over the past few decades, the frequency and severity of natural and human-induced disasters have increased across Asia. These disasters lead to substantial loss of life, livelihoods and community assets, which not only threatens the pace of socio-economic development, but also undo hard-earned gains. Extreme events and disasters such as floods, droughts, heat, fire, cyclones and tidal surges are known to be exacerbated by environmental changes including climate change, land-use changes and natural resource degradation. Increasing climate variability and multi-dimensional vulnerabilities have severely affected the social, ecological and economic capacities of the people in the region who are, economically speaking, those with the least capacity to adapt. Climatic and other environmental hazards and anthropogenic risks, coupled with weak and wavering capacities, severely impact the ecosystems and Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) and, thereby, to human well-being. Long-term resilience building through disaster risk reduction and integrated adaptive climate planning, therefore, has become a key priority for scientists and policymakers alike. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is a cost-effective approach that utilizes ecosystem and biodiversity services for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, while also providing a range of co-benefits like sustainable livelihoods and food, water and energy security. This book discusses the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) – both as a science and as art – and elaborates on how it can be applied to develop healthy and resilient ecosystems locally, nationally, regionally and globally. The book covers illustrative methods and tools adopted for applying NbS in different countries. The authors discuss NbS applications and challenges, research trends and future insights that have wider regional and global relevance. The aspects covered include: landscape restoration, ecosystem-based adaptation, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, ecological restoration, ecosystem-based protected areas management, green infrastructure development, nature-friendly infrastructure development in various ecosystem types, agro-climatic zones and watersheds. The book offers insights into understanding the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the grass roots level and can help indigenous and local communities harness ecosystem services to help achieve them. It offers a unique, essential resource for researchers, students, corporations, administrators and policymakers working in the fields of the environment, geography, development, policy planning, the natural sciences, life sciences, agriculture, health, climate change and disaster studies.

Author : Nidhi Nagabhatla,Yusuf Mehta,Brijesh Kumar Yadav,Ambika Behl,Madhuri Kumari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819929054

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Recent Developments in Water Resources and Transportation Engineering by Nidhi Nagabhatla,Yusuf Mehta,Brijesh Kumar Yadav,Ambika Behl,Madhuri Kumari Pdf

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022). The book focuses on the latest research works carried out in the area of water resources and transportation engineering. Various topics covered in this book include technological intervention and solution for smart and sustainability in water resources and transportation infrastructure, crop protection, resilience to disaster like flood, hurricane, and drought, traffic congestion, transport planning, green and intelligent transportation infrastructure, etc. The book is useful to researchers and practitioners working in the areas of civil engineering, water resources, and transportation engineering.

Author : Abhas K. Jha,Robin Bloch,Jessica Lamond
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821394779

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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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264257689

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Financial Management of Flood Risk by OECD Pdf

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting effects. This report applies the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and its risk guidance to the specific case of floods.