Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Alenaio Stream and Watershed Flood Control
Author: Wailuku-Alenaio Watershed Project, Hawaii County, Hawaii
Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
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Category : Watershed management
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Wailuku-Alenaio Watershed Project
Author: Going with the Flow
Author: Barbara Ellis-SugaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Science for Floodplain Management Into the 21st Century
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Floodplain management
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Urban Watershed Management
Author: Philip B. BedientPublisher: Rice University Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
The Barrier System for Control of Floods in Mountain Streams
Author: Luther Martin WinsorPublisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176255
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book reviews the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) investigations of flood control options for the American River basin and evaluates flood control feasibility studies for the watershed, with attention to the contingency assumptions, hydrologic methods, and other analyses supporting the flood control options. This book provides detailed comments on many technical issues, including a careful review of the 1991 National Research Council report American River Watershed Investigation, and looks beyond the Sacramento case to broader questions about the nation's approach to flood risk management. It discusses how to utilize information available about flood hazard reduction alternatives for the American River basin, the potential benefits provided by various alternatives, the impacts of alternatives on environmental resources and ecosystems, and the trade-offs inherent in any choice among alternatives which does not lie in the realm of scientists and engineers, but in the arena of public decisionmaking.
Managing Flood Risk
Author: Anna Serra-LlobetPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319716735
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
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 Hazard Information, Island of Hawaii
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Honolulu DistrictPublisher:
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Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description