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Flooding - Risk Factors, Environmental Impacts & Management Strategies (Hardcover)
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Flooding - Risk Factors, Environmental Impacts & Management Strategies (Hardcover)
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This book is about flooding, the risk it imposes on human
well-being and related activities, and the main approaches used to
deal with the impacts. The aim is to derive lessons for flood risk
management. The book covers experiences from case studies in the
five countries of Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Brazil and
Taiwan. It indicates that in most areas around the world, floods
disrupt human activities and also pose threats to human well-being
whereas in other areas, particularly wetlands around the world,
they are viewed as useful for the sustainability of ecosystems and
human livelihoods. Due to climate variability and change, floods
are expected to increase in frequency and intensity throughout the
world. There is need to evaluate the current structural and
non-structural approaches for dealing with flood risk and the
impacts on human systems. Decision-making on the adoption of either
structural or non-structural approaches to flood risk largely
depends on information available and the means to achieve the
intended objectives. Understanding the risk posed by flooding
requires multidisciplinary assessments on the biophysical,
socio-economic and cultural factors underlying the vulnerability of
human systems. The book starts by identifying some methods which
may be useful for flood assessments. Furthermore, it identifies the
impacts of flooding and assesses the pros and cons of the related
structural and non-structural responses. The challenges observed
from the two main approaches are identified and suggestions are
made for promoting flood risk management. Suggestions are made for
strengthening support for non-structural approaches which are still
inadequate in most developing countries, and require improvement in
developed countries, given the increasingly complex nature of flood
risk posed by extremes in climate variability.
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