0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology

Buy Now

Flood Resilience of Private Properties (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,558
Discovery Miles 45 580
Flood Resilience of Private Properties (Hardcover): Thomas Hartmann, Tejo Spit, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Helena F.M.W. van...

Flood Resilience of Private Properties (Hardcover)

Thomas Hartmann, Tejo Spit, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick

Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,558 Discovery Miles 45 580 | Repayment Terms: R427 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
Release date: November 2020
First published: 2021
Editors: Thomas Hartmann • Tejo Spit • Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld • Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick
Dimensions: 246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-61769-1
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
Promotions
LSN: 0-367-61769-2
Barcode: 9780367617691

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Environment - An Interdisciplinary…
Glenn Adelson, James Engell, … Paperback R915 R760 Discovery Miles 7 600
Project Management For Engineering…
John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn Paperback R581 Discovery Miles 5 810
Managing Business Projects - The…
Frank Einhorn Paperback R515 Discovery Miles 5 150
Moving to Higher Ground - Rising Sea…
Englander Hardcover R691 Discovery Miles 6 910
Persistent Organic Chemicals in the…
Bommanna G. Loganathan, Jong Seong Khim, … Hardcover R5,244 Discovery Miles 52 440
Assessing Transformation Products of…
Joerg E. Drewes, Thomas Letzel Hardcover R5,239 Discovery Miles 52 390
Advances in the Environmental…
Xionghan Feng, Wei Li, … Hardcover R5,637 Discovery Miles 56 370
Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste…
Neil Hyatt, Kevin M. Fox, … Hardcover R2,155 Discovery Miles 21 550
Sustainability in the Chemistry…
Catherine Middlecamp, Andrew Jorgensen Hardcover R5,928 Discovery Miles 59 280
Recent Advances in Disinfection…
Tanju Karanfil, Bill Mitch, … Hardcover R6,442 Discovery Miles 64 420
Non-Dietary Human Exposure and Risk…
Michael Krolski, Curt Lunchick Hardcover R5,915 Discovery Miles 59 150
Mycotoxin Prevention and Control in…
Michael Appell, David Kendra, … Hardcover R3,567 R2,963 Discovery Miles 29 630

See more

Partners