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Author : Duncan McLuckie,Jaya Kandasamy,Paul Sayers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0727761382
Author : Duncan McLuckie,Jaya Kandasamy
Publisher : ICE Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0727761374
Strategic Management of Flood Risk offers a holistic approach for flood risk management to communities. This supports the practical consideration of the full range of flood behaviour in decisions that influence this risk.
Author : Gareth Pender,Hazel Faulkner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781444340761
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 : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781781006672
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 : Frans Klijn,Timo Schweckendiek
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203374511
Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings. It involves a move towards comprehensive flood risk management, which requires bringing the following fields/domains closer together: the natural sciences, social sc
Author : Jochen Schanze,Evzen Zeman,Jiri Marsalek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045981
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 : Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell,Matilda Becker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351009980
Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and communication, forecasting and warning, and economics. Through short case studies, the range of international examples from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa provide analysis of FRM efforts, processes and issues from human, governance and policy implementation perspectives. Written by an international set of authors, this collection of chapters and case studies will allow the reader to see how floods and flood risk management is experienced in different regions of the world. The way in which institutions manage flood risk is discussed, introducing the notions of realities and social constructions when it comes to risk management. The book will be of great interest to students and professionals of flood, coastal, river and natural hazard management, as well as risk analysis and insurance, demonstrating multiple academic frameworks of analysis and their utility and drawbacks when applied to real-life FRM contexts.
Author : Tom Raadgever,Dries Hegger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319676999
This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach. It provides key conclusions on resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangements in vulnerable urban areas in Europe. These are translated into concrete recommendations and good practices that can give you new insights and inspire you to improve policies and practices. The book is a way of spreading the results of the EU 7th Framework Project STAR-FLOOD. The project investigated strategies for dealing with flood risks in 18 vulnerable urban regions in 6 European countries: England, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. STAR-FLOOD focused on governance aspects, from a combined public administration and legal perspective.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789230011598
Author : Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134013128
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. Based on the work of leading researchers, this book provides an overview of advances in this important subject. It covers all aspects of flood risk including the causes of floods; their impacts on people, property and the environment; and portfolios of risk management measurement. Additional topics include climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modeling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programs, and flood defense infrastructure and assets. The book also examines environmental, human, and social impacts; vulnerability and resilience; risk sharing; and civil contingency planning and emergency management.
Author : Paul Samuels,Stephen Huntington,William Allsop,Jackie Harrop
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1772 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203883020
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 : Anna Serra-Llobet,G. Mathias Kondolf,Kathleen Schaefer,Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319716732
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 : Tom Raadgever,Dries Hegger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 3319884697
This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach. It provides key conclusions on resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangements in vulnerable urban areas in Europe. These are translated into concrete recommendations and good practices that can give you new insights and inspire you to improve policies and practices. The book is a way of spreading the results of the EU 7th Framework Project STAR-FLOOD. The project investigated strategies for dealing with flood risks in 18 vulnerable urban regions in 6 European countries: England, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. STAR-FLOOD focused on governance aspects, from a combined public administration and legal perspective.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Flood control
ISBN : 9780215084484
Given financial constraints, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency have done a good job in improving the cost effectiveness of their approach to flood risk management. They have adopted rational methods to prioritise spending on both new capital flood defences and maintaining existing ones. However, risks remain to the sustainability of current levels of flood protection. The Agency will need to make difficult decisions about how it prioritises its maintenance budget, including some defences where it will need to reduce or stop maintenance. In these cases, there is a risk that lack of maintenance will mean that capital costs are incurred sooner, when defences require replacement earlier. Since our evidence session, the Agency has published a long term investment strategy, which presents a number of flooding scenarios and outlines how much funding would be needed to protect against these.
Author : Abhas K. Jha,Robin Bloch,Jessica Lamond
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821394779
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.