Managing Flood Risk Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams

Managing Flood Risk Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams / edited by Anna Serra-Llobet, G. Mathias Kondolf, Kathleen Schaefer, Scott Nicholson.

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 construct...

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Other Authors: Serra-Llobet, Anna (Editor), Kondolf, G. Mathias (Editor), Schaefer, Kathleen (Editor), Nicholson, Scott (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Environmental geography.
Environmental sociology.
Environmental management.
Geomorphology.
Hydrology.
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