Description
Managing Flood Risk, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams
Coordinators: Serra-Llobet Anna, Kondolf G. Mathias, Schaefer Kathleen, Nicholson Scott
Language: EnglishSubjects for Managing Flood Risk:
Publication date: 12-2018
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2018
Support: Print on demand
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1. Introduction
Part I Big River Basins
2. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the US: The Mississippi River
3. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the US: The Sacramento River
4. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in Europe: The Rhine River
Part II Urban Streams
5. Managing Floods in Mediterranean-Climate Urban Catchments: Experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area (California, US) and the Tagus Estuary (Portugal)
6. Managing Floods in Urban Catchments: Experiences in Denver Area (Colorado, US) and Geneva (Switzerland)
7. Conclusion
Anna Serra-Llobet is Director of the Sustainable Floodplains Project at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Research Fellow at the IMéRA Institut d’Etudes Avancées, Université Aix-Marseilles, France.
G. Mathias Kondolf is Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University California Berkeley, USA and EURIAS Research Fellow at Collegium - Lyon Institut d’Etudes Avancées, Université de Lyon, France.
Kathleen Schaefer is a Researcher at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and recently retired from the post of Regional Engineer for Region IX of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Scott Nicholson is a Researcher at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Senior Policy Advisor and Analyst at the US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington DC.
Offers an accessible overview of key advances in contemporary flood risk management in the USA and Europe
Presents the experiences of practitioners involved in the ‘front lines’ of the transition from conventional ‘flood control’ to flood risk management
Highlights the differences in approaches to governance of floods and flood risks between American and European contexts