Results 261 to 270 of about 13,379,193 (296)

Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance

2018
This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach. It provides key conclusions on resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangements in vulnerable urban areas in Europe.
Raadgever, Tom, Hegger, Dries
openaire   +1 more source

On the Way to a Flood Risk Management Plan

2012
The Flood Directive EC 2007/60 specifies the structure and objectives of the flood risk management plan and the favourable mitigation measures to be taken for reducing the risk. However, little information is given about the strategy to develop and implement this management plan on a local level.
Manojlovic, Natasa, Behzadnia, Niloufar, Pasche, Erik   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Role of Intermediaries in Flood Risk Management

2018
Abstract Flood Risk Management (FRM) calls for stakeholders from multiple technical and social spheres to plan and implement policies and actions to manage flooding successfully. To work effectively across boundaries of knowledge, practice, priority, scale, institutions, and language created by such interdisciplinary or inter ...
openaire   +1 more source

Sustainable Flood Risk Management

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013, 2013
The author presented a paper at the Environment and Water Resources (EWRI) Congress, held in Tampa FL in May 2007 entitled Is the Current Approach to Managing Flood Threats in the United States Sustainable? The paper, subsequently adapted as the article In Harm's Way was published in the ASCE Civil Engineering magazine (Davis, 2007). The paper reviewed
openaire   +1 more source

Flood Risk and Flood Management Policies in China

2019
The scale and pace of China’s urbanization over the past two decades is without precedent. The fast urbanization, combined with the impact of global warming, is reshaping the characteristics of flood risk and flooding preparedness needs. The flood control and drainage infrastructure in China’s cities fails to catch up with the pace of urbanization.
openaire   +1 more source

Flood risk management: Risk cartography for objective negotiations

2002
Past years flood damages in France and Europe have shown that we have still big progress to do to cope with this problem. To do so, it seems that the risk conceptualisation dividing it between a socio-economical dimension (vulnerability) and an hydrological-hydraulic dimension (hazard) is a good way of investigation.
openaire   +2 more sources

Flood Risk in Urban Areas: Modelling, Management and Adaptation to Climate Change. A Review

Hydrology, 2022
Luis Cea, Pierfranco Costabile
exaly  

Flood Risk Assessment and Management

2011
Floods are devastating natural disasters with a significant impact on human life and the surrounding environent. Flood Risk Assessment and Management should serve as an Ideal textbook on analytical flood risk assessment and management, and is intended for lecturers, undergraduates and postgraduates in civil engineering, geography, environmental science,
openaire   +1 more source

Towards better flood risk management: Assessing flood risk and investigating the potential mechanism based on machine learning models

Journal of Environmental Management, 2021
Wenjie Chen, Guoru Huang
exaly  

Flood Risk Management

2015
Sébastien Foudi, Nuria Osés-Eraso
openaire   +1 more source