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2019
Realities and social constructions in flood risk management. Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell and Matilda Becker Legal geography and flood risk management in Germany. Matilda Becker The changing nature of financing flood damages in Canada. Heather Bond Power for change in adapting to coastal flood risk on Curacao in the Caribbean.
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Realities and social constructions in flood risk management. Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell and Matilda Becker Legal geography and flood risk management in Germany. Matilda Becker The changing nature of financing flood damages in Canada. Heather Bond Power for change in adapting to coastal flood risk on Curacao in the Caribbean.
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Sustainable Flood Risk Management
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2013, 2013The 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
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2019
Flooding is a natural hazard with the potential to cause damage at the local, national, and global scale. Flooding is a natural product of heavy precipitation and increased runoff. It may also arise from elevated groundwater tables, coastal inundation, or failed drainage systems.
Anna Murgatroyd, Simon Dadson
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Flooding is a natural hazard with the potential to cause damage at the local, national, and global scale. Flooding is a natural product of heavy precipitation and increased runoff. It may also arise from elevated groundwater tables, coastal inundation, or failed drainage systems.
Anna Murgatroyd, Simon Dadson
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Flood Risk Management Strategies
2018Flood risk management in Europe has traditionally focused on structural solutions to defend against flooding. Although this often appears to be an effective and economically efficient strategy, it is more and more recognised that one should be prepared for flood events as well.
G. T. Raadgever +2 more
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Flood Risk Management Strategies and Governance
2018This 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
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2008
There is an increasing awareness that a valid flood risk assessment requires the involvement of the local public living in the area liable to flooding. Indeed, the new EU Flood Directive stipulates that all stakeholders must be given the opportunity to participate actively in the development and updating of flood risk management plans.
Marchand, M. +6 more
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There is an increasing awareness that a valid flood risk assessment requires the involvement of the local public living in the area liable to flooding. Indeed, the new EU Flood Directive stipulates that all stakeholders must be given the opportunity to participate actively in the development and updating of flood risk management plans.
Marchand, M. +6 more
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Flood risk management: Risk cartography for objective negotiations
2002Past 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.
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