Author: L. A. GrinevichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dikes (Engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Rational Ranges of Application of River Training Diking as Methods of Protecting Alluvial Land from Flooding
Author: L. A. GrinevichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dikes (Engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Annotated Bibliography for Navigation Training Structures
Author: Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen HanakPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
No Adverse Impact
Author: Jon A. KuslerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756746674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
This report discusses selected legal issues associated with a no adverse impactÓ approach to floodplain management. It is intended primarily for government lawyers, lawyers who advise such government officials as land planners, legislators, & natural hazard managers, & lawyers who defend governments against natural hazard-related common law or constitutional suits. The secondary audience is made up of federal, state, & local government officials, regulators, academics, legislators, & others whose duties & decisions can affect or reduce flood hazards. Many case law citations have been included in the report, which is based, in part, upon a review of floodplain cases from the last 15 years.
Making Space for the River
Author: Jeroen Frank WarnerPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1780401124
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for water governance. Different examples from Europe and the United States of America are discussed that aim to ‘green’ rivers, including increasing river discharge for flood management, enhancing natural and landscape values, promoting local or regional economic development, and urban regeneration. Making Space for the River presents not only opportunities and synergies but also risks as it crosses established institutional boundaries and touches on multiple stakeholder interests, which can easily clash. Making Space for the River helps the reader to understand the policy and governance dynamics that lead to these tensions and pays attention to a variety of attempts to organize effective and legitimate governance approaches. The book helps to realize connections between policy domains, problem frames, and goals of different actors at different levels that contribute to decisive and legitimate action. Making Space for the River has an international comparative character that sheds light upon both the country-specific governance dilemmas which relate to specific state traditions and institutional characteristics of national water management, but also uncovers interesting similarities which provide us with building blocks to formulate more generic lessons about the governance of Making Space for the River in different institutional and social contexts. The authors of this book come from a variety of disciplines including public administration, town and country planning, geography and anthropology, and these different disciplines bring multiple ways of knowing and understanding of Making Space for the River programs. The book combines interdisciplinary scientific analyses of Space for the River projects and programs with practical knowing and lessons-drawing. Making Space for the River is written for both practitioners and scholars and students of environmental policy, spatial planning, land use and water management. Editors: Jeroen Warner, Assistant Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Arwin van Buuren, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Jurian Edelenbos, Professor of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Reservoir Sedimentation Handbook
Author: Gregory L. MorrisPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780070433021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Focusing on reservoir sedimentation management and control, this work defines the nature and severity of sedimentation, reviews relevant physical processes, describes techniques used to combat sedimentation, and presents detailed case studies.
Manual on Environmental Management for Mosquito Control
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Climate Change, Water and Food Security
Author: Hugh TurralPublisher: Fao
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The rural poor, who are the most vulnerable, are likely to be disproportionately affected.
Fundamentals of Urban Runoff Management
Author: Earl ShaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban runoff
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Author: François MollePublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849770867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The water resources of the Mekong river catchment area, from China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam, are increasingly contested. Governments, companies and banks are driving new investment in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional "development." Their plans and interventions pose multiple burdens and risks to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains, fisheries and aquatic resources.