Author: Maureen F. RaadPublisher:
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Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Flood Damage Reduction and Riparian Floodplain Forest Restoration
Author: Maureen F. RaadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood damage prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Hamilton City Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration, Glenn County
Author: The Flooded Forest
Author: Francine HughesPublisher:
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Category : Floodplain forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Inland Flood Hazards
Author: Ellen E. WohlPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624190
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This edited volume was originally published in 2000 and presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards. It addresses physical controls on flooding, flood processes and effects, and responses to flooding, from the perspective of human, aquatic, and riparian communities. Individual chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields who draw on examples and case studies of inland flood hazards from around the world. This volume is unusual among treatments of flood hazards in that it addresses how the non-occurrence of floods, in association with flow regulation and other human manipulation of river systems, may create hazards for aquatic and riparian communities. This book will be a valuable resource for everyone associated with inland flood hazards: professionals in government and industry, and researchers and graduate students in civil engineering, geography, geology, hydrology, hydraulics, and ecology.
Restoring Streams in Cities
Author: Ann L. RileyPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Ann L. Riley describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management that does not attempt to control streams, but rather considers the stream as a feature in the urban environment. She presents a logical sequence of land-use planning, site design, and watershed restoration measures along with stream channel modifications and floodproofing strategies that can be used in place of destructive and expensive public works projects. She features examples of effective and environmentally sensitive bank stabilization and flood damage reduction projects, with information on both the planning processes and end results. Chapters provide: history of urban stream management and restoration; information on federal programs, technical assistance, and funding opportunities; and in-depth guidance on implementing projects: collecting watershed and stream channel data, installing revegetation projects, protecting buildings from overbank stream flows.
Strategies for Protection and Management of Floodplain Wetlands and Other Riparian Ecosystems
Author: Raymond Roy JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Aquatic resources conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Dallas Floodway Extension, Flood Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration
Author: Middle Creek, Lake County, Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration
Author: Riparian Areas
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Riparian Ecosystem Creation and Restoration
Author: Karen M. ManciPublisher:
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Category : Riparian ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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