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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Hydraulic engineering > Flood control

Flood Risk Management - Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities (Paperback): Edmund C.Penning- Rowsell,... Flood Risk Management - Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities (Paperback)
Edmund C.Penning- Rowsell, Matilda Becker
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

'Moving towards Risk' - A Melancholic Story of Punjab Satluj Floodplain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Harsimrat Kaur 'Moving towards Risk' - A Melancholic Story of Punjab Satluj Floodplain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Harsimrat Kaur
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain entity evolves and sets a niche to distinctive natural and cultural aspects. The historical reconstruction of the landscape transformation depicts the excessive human encroachment and development activities which leads to more than fifty percent of landscape transformation. Data set layers were generated in a geospatial environment, with the use of multiscale and multitemporal satellite imageries, empirical field verification, and ancillary data input. An integrated landscape model was hence formed in order to identify the causal links between natural and cultural aspects. The author shows a landscape transformation matrix and change detection maps to explain the spatial trends and patterns of land use and land cover change. Pixel wise land use and land cover gain-loss algorithm were identified and measured for a selected time period. Changing spatial pattern of land cover to land use ratio are explained with underlying local to regional level causes. The author thoroughly explains the satellite image interpretation and related methodology. This book provides the detailed transition journey of landscape conversion from resource rich natural entity to a human dominated 'hazardscape'. It also explains how the expansion of population and related activities in the close vicinity of an active floodplain accentuates the problem of flood risks and how it affects the human and livestock life and creates economic loss. The author maps and explains the vector and magnitude of increased human pressure on the landscape and its adverse ecological implications, and describes issues with reference to the hazard status of the Punjab Satluj floodplain, including increased flood risk, increased pressure on agricultural land and depletion of resources, loss of biodiversity, qualitative and quantitative loss to surface and sub-surface water, and soil degradation (soil erosion, waterlogging and soil loss). Recommendations are provided with a detailed provision of potential applications with the underlying agenda of further conversion of this ecologically highly vulnerable flood prone 'hazardscape' to a Green Habitat. This book consist of two major themes: land use/land cover change and floodplain. The author answers all the geographical questions (what, where, when, why and how) related with both themes and provides an outlook to potential future prospects. The book is targeted at stakeholders, students, researchers and policy makers to optimize their interest and to guide them towards a positive charge in sustainable resource management through suitable and best possible sustainable utilization of landscape.

Managing Flood Risk - Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Anna Serra... Managing Flood Risk - Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Anna Serra Llobet, G. Mathias Kondolf, Kathleen Schaefer, Scott Nicholson
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Flood Monitoring through Remote Sensing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Alberto Refice, Annarita D'addabbo, Domenico Capolongo Flood Monitoring through Remote Sensing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Alberto Refice, Annarita D'addabbo, Domenico Capolongo
R5,155 Discovery Miles 51 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing. A complete approach to efficient and precise flood monitoring requires multiple fields of expertise, from image processing to hydrologic monitoring. This volume details the latest remote sensing techniques for flood monitoring and mapping, including use of optical data from geostationary sensors and LEO spacecraft, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data analysis, and data fusion. Detailed case studies from a variety of subject experts illustrate these tools and techniques. Accurate monitoring of flood events is increasingly necessary to gain insight about both causes and remedies. Floods are one of the most destructive hazards to the human populations, they can occur practically everywhere on the Earth surface, and each year cause considerable harm and damage to infrastructures. The recent Flood directive in European Countries is contributing to a more quantitative approach to flood hazard and risk evaluation.

Public Spaces for Water - A Design Notebook (Hardcover): Maria Silva Public Spaces for Water - A Design Notebook (Hardcover)
Maria Silva
R3,431 Discovery Miles 34 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary benefits brought by public space design. Reassessing and improving established flood management methods, public spaces are faced with a new and enhanced role as mediators of flood adaptation able to integrate infrastructure and communities together in the management of flood water as an ultimate resource for urban resilience. The book specifically introduces a path towards a new perspective on flood adaptation through public space design, stressing the importance of local, bottom up, approaches. Deriving from a solution-directed investigation, which is particularly attentive to design, the book offers a wide range of systematized conceptual solutions of flood adaptation measures applicable in the design of public spaces. Through a commonly used vocabulary and simple technical notions, the book facilitates and accelerates the initial brainstorm phases of a public space project with flood adaptation capacities, enabling a direct application in contemporary practice. Furthermore, it offers a significant sample of real-case examples that may further assist the decision-making throughout design processes. Overall, the book envisions to challenge established professionals, such as engineers, architects or urban planners, to work and design with uncertainty in an era of an unprecedented climate.

Phenomenology in Adaptation Planning - An Empirical Study of Flood-affected People in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta (Hardcover,... Phenomenology in Adaptation Planning - An Empirical Study of Flood-affected People in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Hendricus Andy Simarmata
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge, which plays a significant part in determining the adaptation pathway of the urban poor. The book brings together empirical data to translate self-reflective planning theory into the practical context, examines community planning, and enriches the discourse on urban adaptation. Lastly, it provides an adaptation-planning model that can benefit academics, practitioners and policymakers who wish to provide more socially accepted plans.

Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
Mashael Mohammed Al Saud
R3,350 Discovery Miles 33 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods and concepts that can be applied in similar areas in Saudi Arabia in order to reduce and mitigate the impact of torrential rains and floods.

Carnegie Denied - Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925 (Hardcover): Robert Martin Carnegie Denied - Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants, 1898-1925 (Hardcover)
Robert Martin
R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Andrew Carnegie was the foremost supporter of public library construction to the point that Carnegie Library became a cliche, synonymous with the public library, especially in small towns. Yet some communities that asked for Carnegie's funds to build a library later took public action to decline the funds. Because he was viewed as a robber baron, it has been assumed that these refusals were motivated by a desire not to take tainted money. This work documents that this was rarely the case. Indeed, there were many reasons for opposition to the Carnegie library grants. In some cases, local authorities remained unconvinced of the need for a public library. Some communities were under legal or financial restrictions that prevented them from taxing themselves in support of the library. In some, there was simply opposition to increasing the tax burden; in others the opposition focused on the perception that Carnegie was building memorials to himself.

Experienced historians were commissioned to conduct thorough studies of regional clusters. The authors made the broadest possible use of primary sources, including public archives, manuscript collections, local newspaper accounts, and the records of the Carnegie Corporation in the Library of Congress. Of particular relevance were the files of the Carnegie Library Correspondence, documenting most of the history of first, Andrew Carnegie's--and later, the Carnegie Corporation's--program to fund library construction programs.

ISFRAM 2014 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Research and Management (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Sahol Hamid... ISFRAM 2014 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flood Research and Management (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Wardah Tahir, Marfiah Ab Wahid, Siti Rashidah Mohd Nasir, Rohana Hassan
R5,492 Discovery Miles 54 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights research in flood related areas and sustainable management conducted by researchers around the world, compiling their innovative work in order to share best practices for managing floods and recommended flood solutions. The individual papers cover the fundamentals and latest advances in the areas of flood research and management, providing in-depth coverage complemented by illustrations, diagrams and tables. The book offers a valuable source of information on methods and state-of-the art technology for effective flood management.

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise - Innovative Global Solutions (Paperback): Galen D Newman, Zixu Qiao Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise - Innovative Global Solutions (Paperback)
Galen D Newman, Zixu Qiao
R1,129 Discovery Miles 11 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue, illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered), non-structural (nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new and existing communities. It is important for those located within the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and those responsible for land use, developmental, and population-related activities within these areas to strategically implement a series of integrated constructed and green infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately protect threatened areas. As a result, this book is beneficial to both academics and practitioners related to multiple design professions such as urban designers, urban planners, architects, real estate developers, and landscape architects.

Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Mashael  Mohammed Al Saud Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Mashael Mohammed Al Saud
R3,576 Discovery Miles 35 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods and concepts that can be applied in similar areas in Saudi Arabia in order to reduce and mitigate the impact of torrential rains and floods.

Reservoir Management (Hardcover): Andrew Pepper Reservoir Management (Hardcover)
Andrew Pepper
R3,767 Discovery Miles 37 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities (Hardcover): Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Piet Dircke,... Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities (Hardcover)
Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Piet Dircke, Philip Ward
R4,334 Discovery Miles 43 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities, including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others. While the main focus is on coastal flooding, cities are also affected by climate change in other ways, including impacts that occur away from the coast. The New York City Water Supply System, for example, stretches as far as 120 miles upstate, and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection has undertaken extensive climate assessment not only for its coastal facilities, but also for its upstate facilities, which will be affected by rising temperatures, droughts, inland flooding and water quality changes.

The authors examine key questions, such as: Are current city plans climate proof or do we need to finetune our ongoing investments? Can we develop a flood proof subway system? Can we develop new infrastructure in such a way that it serves flood protection, housing and natural values?

Flood Risk Management in Europe - Innovation in Policy and Practice (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Selina Begum, Marcel J.F. Stive, Jim... Flood Risk Management in Europe - Innovation in Policy and Practice (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Selina Begum, Marcel J.F. Stive, Jim W. Hall
R4,454 Discovery Miles 44 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This valuable edition brings together 26 peer reviewed articles on technical, socio-economic, environmental and policy aspects of flood risk management. These articles contribute to the five sections with the general themes: i) flood risk management practice, ii) flood events and impacts, iii) flood analysis and modelling iv) flood forecasting and v) flood risk management policy. Some emerging technologies are presented and several future challenges are identified.

Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures (Paperback, 2006 ed.): Jochen Schanze, Evzen Zeman, Jiri... Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures (Paperback, 2006 ed.)
Jochen Schanze, Evzen Zeman, Jiri Marsalek
R8,402 Discovery Miles 84 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management (Paperback, 2006 ed.): Jiri Marsalek, Gheorghe Stancalie, Gabor... Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management (Paperback, 2006 ed.)
Jiri Marsalek, Gheorghe Stancalie, Gabor Balint
R6,448 Discovery Miles 64 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and continuing encroachment of development onto flood plains and aging flood protection structures. Under such circumstances, there is an ongoing search for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management. Many flood management measures have been practiced in various jurisdictions, including living with floods, non-structural measures (e.g. regulations, flood defence by flood forecasting and warning, evacuations, and flood insurance), and structural measures (e.g., land drainage modifications, reservoirs, dykes and polders). Such flood management is difficult in river basins controlled by a single authority, and becomes even more challenging when dealing with transboundary floods, which may originate in one country or jurisdiction and then propagate downstream to another country, or jurisdiction.

Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Jiri Marsalek, Gheorghe Stancalie, Gabor... Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Jiri Marsalek, Gheorghe Stancalie, Gabor Balint
R8,491 Discovery Miles 84 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and continuing encroachment of development onto flood plains and aging flood protection structures. Under such circumstances, there is an ongoing search for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management. Many flood management measures have been practiced in various jurisdictions, including living with floods, non-structural measures (e.g. regulations, flood defence by flood forecasting and warning, evacuations, and flood insurance), and structural measures (e.g., land drainage modifications, reservoirs, dykes and polders). Such flood management is difficult in river basins controlled by a single authority, and becomes even more challenging when dealing with transboundary floods, which may originate in one country or jurisdiction and then propagate downstream to another country, or jurisdiction.

Barrages - Engineering Design & Environmental Impacts (International Conference 10-13 September 1996, Cardiff, UK) (Hardcover):... Barrages - Engineering Design & Environmental Impacts (International Conference 10-13 September 1996, Cardiff, UK) (Hardcover)
J. Watts
R8,509 Discovery Miles 85 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The very word "barrages" is evocative. In the context of tidal waters it conjures up pictures of massive structures and environmental change. Barrages represent the engineer?s success where King Canute failed ? to stop the tide coming in. They are hardly a new concept as man has for centuries tried to harness tidal power to drive his machinery, but a new breed of barrage is emerging, aimed at regenerating depressed urban areas. One of the primary aims of such schemes has been to drown "unsightly" mud flats. If you happen to be a wading bird used to enjoying the worms that live in intertidal mud flats you may not share that perspective. Indeed, many people today tend to side with the birds, fish and other ecological wonders and often find themselves in conflict with the promoters of a barrage scheme. How far are their fears justified? Are the negative impacts as bad as some people have predicted or even worse? How accurately can the impacts be predicted by scientific methods? Can the barrage be designed and its operation controlled to mitigate any negative effects as well as to optimise its primary objective? These issues are addressed in this book by authors drawing on their experience of research and practical experience.

River and Channel Revetments: A Design Manual (HR Wallingford titles) (Paperback): Manuela Escarameia River and Channel Revetments: A Design Manual (HR Wallingford titles) (Paperback)
Manuela Escarameia
R3,058 Discovery Miles 30 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive manual provides extensive information on the types of revetment available and provides guidance on the choice and design of these systems. With regard to natural and artificial watercourses information is included on revetments that incorporate some form of structural protection and revetments which combine this protection with vegetation to increase the environmental quality of the systems. Extensive use of photographs, flowcharts and diagrams allow the engineer to choose the most appropriate type of revetment and the most cost-effective design.

Revetment Systems Against Wave Attack: A Design Manual (HR Wallingford titles) (Paperback): Kirsty McConnell Revetment Systems Against Wave Attack: A Design Manual (HR Wallingford titles) (Paperback)
Kirsty McConnell
R3,019 Discovery Miles 30 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the functions of revetments and the different aspects of structural performance. It includes example specifications and calculations that enable the engineer to choose the most stable, appropriate and cost-effective revetment system for a given situation. The book guides the engineer through the design process, from identifying hydraulic loading conditions and initial dimensioning of the revetment elements to detailed design of the revetment elements to ensure adequate protection against design wave conditions.

Floods in a Changing Climate - Inundation Modelling (Paperback): Giuliano Di Baldassarre Floods in a Changing Climate - Inundation Modelling (Paperback)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
R1,046 R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Save R353 (34%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Flood inundation models enable us to make hazard predictions for floodplains, mitigating increasing flood fatalities and losses. This book provides an understanding of hydraulic modelling and floodplain dynamics, with a key focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing data, and methods to estimate and communicate uncertainty. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and natural hazards, and professionals and policy-makers working in flood risk mitigation, hydraulic engineering and remote sensing will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the third in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrological Modeling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management by Slodoban Simonovic.

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience - A Guide to Building & Community Design (Hardcover): Edward Barsley Retrofitting for Flood Resilience - A Guide to Building & Community Design (Hardcover)
Edward Barsley
R1,388 Discovery Miles 13 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Flood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built and natural environment can be adapted to the threat of flooding. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property flood resilience. Offering clear visual examples of the variety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a range of flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual for architects and professionals across the built environment. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research from government, academic and industry experts as well as first-hand experiences from flood affected communities

Mississippi River Tragedies - A Century of Unnatural Disaster (Hardcover): Christine A Klein, Sandra B. Zellmer Mississippi River Tragedies - A Century of Unnatural Disaster (Hardcover)
Christine A Klein, Sandra B. Zellmer
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive-but horribly misleading-to call such catastrophes "natural." Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature-simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors' final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.

Urban Flood Management (Paperback): Chris Zevenbergen, Adrian Cashman, Niki Evelpidou, Erik Pasche, Stephen Garvin, Richard... Urban Flood Management (Paperback)
Chris Zevenbergen, Adrian Cashman, Niki Evelpidou, Erik Pasche, Stephen Garvin, …
R3,461 Discovery Miles 34 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than half the deaths caused by natural catastrophes. As flood events appear to be rapidly increasing world-wide, an advanced and universal approach to urban flooding and how to manage will help reduce flood impact.

This textbook integrates expertise from disciplines such as hydrology, sociology, architecture, urban design, construction and water resources engineering. The subject is approached from an international perspective and case studies, exercises, expert advice and literature recommendations are included to support the theory and illustrations.

Developed by a team of specialists, this volume is intended for urban flood management education of hydrology, geography, civil and environmental engineering, and management students at university level. Moreover, professionals will find this book useful as a reference. More information on flood resilience and urban flood management can be found at www.floodresiliencegroup.org

For a preview, please go to http: //issuu.com/crcpress/docs/urban_flood_management

Estimating the Impacts of Urban Growth on Future Flood Risk - A Comparative Study (Paperback): Willem Veerbeek Estimating the Impacts of Urban Growth on Future Flood Risk - A Comparative Study (Paperback)
Willem Veerbeek
R3,429 Discovery Miles 34 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The unprecedented growth of cities has a significant impact on future flood risk that might exceed the impacts of climate change in many metropolitan areas across the world. Although the effects of urbanisation on flood risk are well understood, assessments that include spatially explicit future growth projections are limited. This comparative study provides insight in the long term development of future riverine and pluvial flood risk for 18 fast growing megacities. The outcomes provide not only a baseline absent in current practise, but also a strategic outlook that might better establish the role of urban planning in limiting future flood risk.

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