Sharing the Challenge

Sharing the Challenge PDF

Author: Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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Text of Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management into the 21st Century, The Report of the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee. It proposes a better way to manage floodplains.

Managing Flood Risk

Managing Flood Risk PDF

Author: Anna Serra-Llobet

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 3319716735

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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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