Author: James E. GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Emerging Program for Managing Flood Losses
Author: James E. GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Emerging Program for Managing Flood Losses
Author: James E. GoddardA Unified National Program for Flood Plain Management
Author: Water Resources Council (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Floodplain Management
Author: Bob FreitagPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610911326
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance Program, which estimates that flooding causes at least six billion dollars in damages every year. Like rivers after a rainstorm, the financial costs are rising along with the toll on residents. And the worst is probably yet to come. Most scientists believe that global climate change will result in increases in flooding. The authors of this book present a straightforward argument: the time to stop a flooding rivers is before is before it floods. Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with our societal capabilities. It describes our present flood management practices, which are often based on dam or levee projects that do not incorporate the latest understandings about river processes. And it suggests that a better solution is to work with the natural tendencies of the river: retreat from the floodplain by preventing future development (and sometimes even removing existing structures); accommodate the effects of floodwaters with building practices; and protect assets with nonstructural measures if possible, and with large structural projects only if absolutely necessary.
UNIFIED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR MANAGING FLOOD LOSSES
Author: James E. GoddardUNIFIED NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR MANAGING FLOOD LOSSES
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Flood Hazard Area Management for New England
Author: Anderson-Nichols & CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the Floodplain
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309371694
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal disaster relief, which has risen to record levels in recent years. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was created in 1968 to reduce the flood risk to individuals and their reliance on federal disaster relief by making federal flood insurance available to residents and businesses if their community adopted floodplain management ordinances and minimum standards for new construction in flood prone areas. Insurance rates for structures built after a flood plain map was adopted by the community were intended to reflect the actual risk of flooding, taking into account the likelihood of inundation, the elevation of the structure, and the relationship of inundation to damage to the structure. Today, rates are subsidized for one-fifth of the NFIP's 5.5 million policies. Most of these structures are negatively elevated, that is, the elevation of the lowest floor is lower than the NFIP construction standard. Compared to structures built above the base flood elevation, negatively elevated structures are more likely to incur a loss because they are inundated more frequently, and the depths and durations of inundation are greater. Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the Floodplain studies the pricing of negatively elevated structures in the NFIP. This report review current NFIP methods for calculating risk-based premiums for these structures, including risk analysis, flood maps, and engineering data. The report then evaluates alternative approaches for calculating risk-based premiums and discusses engineering hydrologic and property assessment data needs to implement full risk-based premiums. The findings and conclusions of this report will help to improve the accuracy and precision of loss estimates for negatively elevated structures, which in turn will increase the credibility, fairness, and transparency of premiums for policyholders.
Conceptual Framework and Basic Strategies and Tools for Implementing a Unified National Program for Floodplain Management
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floodplain management
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
National Flood Insurance Program: Answers to Questions About the NFIP
Author: Federal Emergency Management Age (Fema)Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781678028459
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The NFIP is a Federal program created by Congress to mitigate future flood losses nationwide through sound, community-enforced building and zoning ordinances and to provide access to affordable, federally backed flood insurance protection for property owners. The NFIP is designed to provide an insurance alternative to disaster assistance to meet the escalating costs of repairing damage to buildings and their contents caused by floods. Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between local communities and the Federal Government that states that if a community will adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks to new construction in Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), the Federal Government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood losses.