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Managing Flood Risk - Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Managing Flood Risk - Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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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.
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