Author: Edmund C. Penning-RowsellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780566001901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The benefits of flood alleviation
Author: Edmund C. Penning-RowsellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780566001901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Benefits of Flood Alleviation
Author: Edmund Charles Penning-RowsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Benefits of Flood Alleviation
Author: Edmund Penning-RowsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Indirect Benefits of Flood Alleviation
Author: Dennis J. ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Retrofitting for Flood Resilience
Author: Edward BarsleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000703797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, whilst highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property-level flood resilience. As a comprehensive and practical manual, this book includes richly illustrated diagrams on a variety of concepts and strategies to use when designing for flood resilience. It is vital resource for anyone looking to adapt to the threat of flood risk. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research with the Cabinet Office, Environment Agency & Local Community as well as input from academic and industry experts, homeowners and residents of communities at risk of flooding.
Risk and uncertainty in the evaluation of flood alleviation benefits
Author: N W. ArnellEvaluating the Intangible Benefits and Costs of a Flood Alleviation Proposal
Author: C. H. GreenRelief from Floods
Author: John Watson AlvordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Floods and Drainage
Author: Edmund Penning-RowsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000753638
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Originally published in 1986, Floods and Drainage advanced hazard – response theory as developed mainly by the White/Burton/Kates school of researchers in North America. Based on fifteen years of research, the book rejects conventional theory’s emphasis on personal response to hazardous environments, suggesting that this seriously detracts from the institutional and political forces that are so important in the analysis of hazard responses and policies. The book also seeks to provide material of practical relevance to environmental managers and engineers, rather than to present just research results.
Flood Risk and Social Justice
Author: Zoran VojinovicPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843393875
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Flood Risk and Social Justice is a response to the rising significance of floods and flood-related disasters worldwide, as an initiative to promote a socially just approach to the problems of flood risk. It integrates the human-social and the technological components to provide a holistic view. This book treats flooding as a multi-dimensional human and natural world tragedy that must be accommodated using all the social and technological means that can be mobilised before, during and after the flooding event. It covers socially just flood risk mitigation practices which necessitate a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches, starting from social and wider environmental needs, including feedback cycles between human needs and technological means. Flood Risk and Social Justice looks at how to judge whether a risk is acceptable or not by addressing an understanding of social and phenomenological considerations rather than simple calculations of probabilities multiplied by unwanted outcomes and their balancing between costs and benefits. It is argued that the present ‘flood management’ practice should be largely replaced by the social justice approach where particular attention is given to deciding what is the right thing to do within a much wider context. Thus it insists upon the validity of modes of human understanding which cannot be addressed within the limited context of modern science. Flood Risk and Social Justice is written to support a wide range of audiences and seeks to improve the dialogue between researchers and practitioners from different disciplines (including post-graduate engineering, environmental and social science students, industry practitioners, academics, planners, environmental advocacy groups and environmental law professionals) who have a strong interest in a new kind of social justice work that can act as a continuous counter-balance to the various mechanisms that unceasingly give rise to profound injustices. More information about this book can be found in this article written for the WaterWiki by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/FloodRiskandSocialJustice Authors: Zoran Vojinovic is Associate Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, with almost 20 years of consulting and research experience in various aspects of water industry in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, Central/South America and the Caribbean. Michael B. Abbott is Emeritus Professor at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, and a Director of the European Institute for Industrial Leadership in Brussels. He founded and developed the disciplines of Computational Hydraulics and Hydroinformatics and co-founded, the Journal of Hydroinformatics with Professor Roger Falconer.