Flood control Books
RIBA Publishing Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to
Book SynopsisFlood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built and natural environment can be adapted to the threat of flooding. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property flood resilience. Offering clear visual examples of the variety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a range of flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual for architects and professionals across the built environment. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research from government, academic and industry experts as well as first-hand experiences from flood affected communities Table of ContentsChapter 1: Flood Risk Contexts & Consequences Chapter 2: Types of Flooding Chapter 3: Tools & Techniques for Understanding Flood Risk & Resilience Chapter 4: Catchment & Community Flood Risk Management Chapter 5: Building Level Strategies Chapter 6: Pathways to a Flood Resilient Future
£40.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc Barrages
Book SynopsisThe very word barrages is evocative. In the context of tidal waters it conjures up pictures of massive structures and environmental change. Barrages represent the engineer s success where King Canute failed to stop the tide coming in. They are hardly a new concept as man has for centuries tried to harness tidal power to drive his machinery, but a new breed of barrage is emerging, aimed at regenerating depressed urban areas. One of the primary aims of such schemes has been to drown unsightly mud flats. If you happen to be a wading bird used to enjoying the worms that live in intertidal mud flats you may not share that perspective. Indeed, many people today tend to side with the birds, fish and other ecological wonders and often find themselves in conflict with the promoters of a barrage scheme. How far are their fears justified? Are the negative impacts as bad as some people have predicted or even worse? How accurately can the impacts be predicted by scientific methods? Can the barrage Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES. Tidal Barrages - Learning From Experience (T. Burt & I. Cruickshank). The Tidal Barriers for the Venice Lagoon (G. Cecconi). ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS. The Severn Estuary: To Barrage or Not to Barrage? (P. Williams & D. Worrall). Managing the Impact of a Barrage on Outdoor Recreation (C.McGarvey). CARDIFF BAY: HYDRAULIC REGIME. Physical Modelling - An Effective Tool for Assessment of Barrage Design and Performance(M. Littlewood, et al.). CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE. Cardiff Bay Barrage: Design (P. Hunter, et al.). ECOLOGICAL ISSUES. Impacts of Barrages on Saltmarshes and Other Wetlands (M.Hill). WATER QUALITY. The Impacts on Water Quality of the Venice Tidal Barriers (A.Bernstein & G. Cecconi). COSTS, BENEFITS AND DECISIONS.The Tees Barrage - A Success Story (D. Hall). Protecting Wetlands in Norfolk - The Benefits of a Bure Barrier (P. Barham, et al.). TAWE BARRAGE. Post Impoundment Fishery Investigations on the Tawe Barrage, SouthWales (D. Mee, et al.). RIVER FLOWS AND CONTROL. Environmental Impact Assessment of Barrages in Sindh Province,Parkistan (A. Rehan). PLANNING AND CONTROL. The Colne Barrier (S. Hayman & F. Burd).
£280.76
Emerald Publishing Limited Revetment Systems Against Wave Attack A Design
Book SynopsisDiscusses the functions of revetments and the different aspects of structural performance. This book aims to enable the engineer to choose the most stable, appropriate and cost-effective revetment system, for a given situation. It guides through the design process, and helps in the identification of hydraulic loading conditions.Table of ContentsIntroduction Revetment function and performance Revetment components Materials for revetment construction Identification of likely failure modes Design Process Hydraulic Boundary Conditions Geotrchical Boundary Conditions Design of initial cross-section Design methods Detailed design Other considerations Inspection, Maintenance and repair Appendix References
£76.95
Emerald Publishing Limited Floods And Reservoir Safety 4Th Edition
Book SynopsisThis fourth edition provides authoritative guidance on flood protection standards, flood magnitude and freeboard -guidance which is essential for engineers who are responsible for the design and inspection of reservoirs.Table of ContentsIntroduction Floods and waves protection standards Derivation of reservoir design flood inflow Reservoir flood routing Wave surcharge and darn freeboard Floods during dam construction and dam improvement works The overtopping of embankment dams
£43.22
Emerald Publishing Limited Land Drainage and Flood Defence Responsibilities
Book SynopsisLand Drainage and Flood Defence Responsibilities offers practical, engineering-focused coverage of the legislation relating to water management, flood risk and drainage. Owing to increasingly erratic weather patterns and the effects of climate change, the tops of drainage and flood defence are becoming ever-more important for the policy-makers, engineers and construction professionals charged with responding to these changes.This fifth edition of Land Drainage and Flood Defence Responsibilities has been fully updated to reflect the significant changes that have been made to both domestic and European legislation since the last edition was published in 2010. Each chapter now includes separate sections outlining any differences in legislation between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.This new edition covers the following major recent developments: Water Act 2014 Flood and Water Management Act 2010 Flood Risk Manage
£54.62
Emerald Publishing Limited Strategic Management of Flood Risk
Book SynopsisStrategic Management of Flood Risk offers a proven approach for flood risk management in communities internationally. This supports the practical consideration of the full range of flood behaviour in decisions that influence this risk.These decisions may relate to: management activities aimed at reducing risk to the existing community land use planning activities to limit the growth in risk related to new development emergency management activities aimed at preparing for, responding to, and recovering from floods. This book provides a logical framework and understanding of how flood risk to communities can be considered and managed. It discusses approaches that allow consideration of the variation of risk between and within floodplains, and across flood events of different scales. It investigates how land use planning activities that support community growth can be informed by an understanding of the variation in flood behaviour, flood
£82.18
Emerald Publishing Limited Reservoir Management
Book SynopsisThis book will be an essential purchase for any reservoir manager, as well as for developers and designers looking to exercise good practice for the future management of new reservoirs.
£104.98
American Society of Civil Engineers Public Safety Guidance for Urban Stormwater
Book SynopsisProvides guidance for reducing risks from safety hazards at facilities managing urban stormwater. Although it is impractical to achieve zero risk at stormwater management facilities, steps can be taken to promote public safety. This guidance provides a framework for integrating protection of the public into the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of stormwater facililites.
£59.25
Louisiana State University Press Draining New Orleans
Book SynopsisIn the first full-length book devoted to ‘the world’s toughest drainage problem’, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City.
£32.25
MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Cities and Flooding A Guide to Integrated Urban
Book SynopsisCovers the causes, probability and impacts of floods; the measures that can be used to manage flood risk, balancing structural and non-structural solutions in an integrated fashion; and the means by which these measures can be financed and implemented, and their progress monitored and evaluated.
£31.46
Cambridge University Press Floods in a Changing Climate
Book SynopsisThis book explains hydraulic modeling and floodplain dynamics, providing models of hazard predictions for floodplains based on state-of-the-art remote sensing data. Ideal for academic researchers and professionals working in hazard mitigation, hydraulic engineering and remote sensing, it is one of four books on climate-related flood disaster management theory and practice.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Theory: 2. Theoretical background: steady flow Luigia Brandimarte; 3. Theoretical background: unsteady flow Ioana Popescu; Part II. Methods: 4. Data sources; 5. Model building; 6. Model evaluation; 7. Model outputs; Part III. Applications: 8. Urban flood modelling Jeffrey C. Neal, Paul D. Bates and Timothy J. Fewtrell; 9. Changes in flood propagation caused by human activities; 10. Changes of stage-discharge rating curves; 11. Evaluation of floodplain management strategies; References; Index.
£35.14
IGI Global Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk
Book SynopsisEach year, floods cause an enormous amount of global economic and social damage, impacting transportation systems, water supplies, agriculture, and health. Response management to catastrophic floods require increased measures involving integrated planning, adaptation, and recovery strategies in order to protect against human loss.Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of effective models and tools focused on the diagnosis of vulnerability to flooding risks and evaluates and measures the impact of floods on socio-economic wellbeing. While highlighting topics such as hydrological events, soil erosion, and flood vulnerability, this publication explores methods of identifying appropriate adaptation strategies. This book is ideally designed for researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, government officials, and technology developers seeking current empirical research findings to be used to improve the overall understanding of the flood phenomenon.
£178.50
Nova Science Publishers Inc Flood Risk Management
Book SynopsisResponsibility for flood risk management in the United States is a shared responsibility between multiple Federal, State, and local government agencies with a complex set of programs and authorities. Nationally, both the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have programs to assist states and communities in reducing flood damages and promoting sound flood risk management. The authority to determine how land is used in floodplains and to enforce flood-wise requirements is entirely the responsibility of state and local government. Floodplain management choices made by state and local officials, in turn, impact the effectiveness of federal programs to mitigate flood risk and the performance of federal flood damage reduction infrastructure. One key challenge is to ensure that as the public and government leaders make flood risk management decisions, they integrate environmental, social, and economic factors and consider all available tools to improve public safety. Importantly, the public must be educated both as to the risks they face and actions they can take to reduce their risks. Because of this complex arrangement of responsibilities, only a life-cycle, comprehensive and collaborative systems approach will enable communities to sustain an effective reduction of risks from flooding.
£29.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Flood Policy: Balancing Challenges &
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£107.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc National Flood Insurance Program: Challenges &
Book SynopsisIn late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused widespread flood-related property damage in coastal areas of states throughout the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region. The storm exposed vulnerabilities in the region''s public transportation and infrastructure and underscored the nation''s growing exposure to extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and coastal flooding. Although the full economic cost of Sandy will not be known for years, the storm has resulted in substantial federal disaster recovery assistance, including tens of billions for flood and hurricane protection and coastal restoration, and the rebuilding of mass transit systems and housing. Government payouts under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are estimated to be between $12 billion and $15 billion in flood insurance claims. In the immediate aftermath of Sandy, this amount quickly exceeded the $4 billion in cash and remaining borrowing authority from the Treasury Department. By January 2013, the NFIP had processed more than 140,000 claims for Sandy-related damages totalling about $1.7 billion. To protect the financial integrity of the NFIP and ensure that the NFIP has the financial resources to cover its existing commitments following the devastation caused by Sandy, the Obama Administration requested that Congress pass legislation to increase the NFIP''s borrowing authority. On January 4, 2013, Congress passed, and the President two days later signed into law, H.R. 41 to provide a $9.7 billion increase in the NFIP''s borrowing authority, from $20.725 billion to $30.425 billion, to pay flood claims related to Hurricane Sandy. This book provides an analysis of flood risk management, summarises major challenges facing the NFIP, and outlines key reforms enacted in the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. The report identifies and presents some key remaining flood management issues for congressional consideration, and concludes with a discussion of policy options for the future financial management of flood hazards in the United States.
£52.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Floodplains: Environmental Management,
Book SynopsisA floodplain is a flat, or nearly flat, land that is adjacent to a stream or river which experiences occasional flooding (a naturally occurring process), and those who live near rivers and floodplains are especially interested in them. Historically, floodplains have been used for waste disposal, supplies, power generation, transport and food. In this book, the student or professional will find information about some floodplains around the world and their main problems, as well as some techniques used to study them. This book is divided into nine chapters, and each one aims to show some relevant studies in floodplains and lakes using assorted themes, such as: mercury speciation and bioavailability, plant-soil interactions, indicators for evaluating floodplain restoration, floodplain formation, phytoplankton community, storage and release of water, hydrogenic heavy metals and hydrodynamics.
£146.24
States Academic Press Flood Risk Management
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£101.87
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share at Elgaronline.Centralizing the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.Discussing key barriers and sharing evidence-based best practices to flood risk management, international contributors involved in the LAND4FLOOD EU COST Action initiative (CA16209) seek transferrable solutions to the implementation challenges of nature-based solutions. Introducing the concept of spatial flood risk management, the multi-national teams of authors consider the notion of land through three analytical lenses: as a biophysical system, a socio-economic resource, and a solution to flood-risk management. Advocating for a more comprehensive approach, the book explores options of where and how to store water within catchments, including decentralized water retention in the hinterland, flood storage along rivers, and planned flooding in resilient cities.Bringing together the existing knowledge on the relation between flood risk management and land with an international and interdisciplinary scope, this book will prove invaluable to academics, policy makers and public authorities involved in flood risk management, urban planners, and governing environmental bodies.Trade Review‘In a world where climatic variability is expected to deluge various regions of the world, the link between land use and water management will become even more evident. Hence, this book is a very timely and welcomed compilation of articles exploring nature-based solutions for flood risk management on privately-owned lands. It fills a large gap in the literature and is certainly a major contribution to the field.’ -- Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University and Immediate past-President of The International Water Resources Association, US‘Global climate change will cause more flood damage. The implementation of nature-based water retardation and absorption measures on both private and public land is an essential damage mitigation strategy. This book by leading European flood experts provides a roadmap to the hydrological, economic, geographic, legal and social challenges that the adoption and implementation of effective strategies poses.’ -- A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii Sally Priest Acknowledgement xiv 1 Introduction to Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land 1 Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E. Wilkinson PART I WATER RETENTION IN THE HINTERLAND 2 Nature-based solutions for flow reduction in catchment headwaters 13 Mary Bourke, Mark E. Wilkinson and Zorica Srdjevic 3 Legal challenges of restricting land use for natural flood protection in the hinterland 33 Juliane Albrecht and Sofija Nikolić Popadić 4 Implementation of measures in the hinterland: transaction costs and economic instruments 52 Gábor Ungvári and Dennis Collentine PART II FLOOD STORAGE ALONG RIVERS 5 Technical and hydrological effects across scales and thresholds of polders, dams and levees 68 Reinhard Pohl and Nejc Bezak 6 Financial compensation and legal restrictions for using land for flood retention 89 Andras Kis, Arthur Schindelegger and Vesna Zupanc 7 Upstream-downstream schemes and their instruments 106 Thomas Hartmann, Lukas Löschner and Jan Macháč PART III RESILIENT CITIES 8 Individual measures for adaptive cities 120 Christin Rinnert, Thomas Thaler and Robert Jüpner 9 Institutionalizing the resilient city: constraints and opportunities 134 Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir and Barbara Tempels 10 The role of risk transfer and spatial planning for enhancing the flood resilience of cities 148 Paul Hudson and Lenka Slavíková PART IV CONCLUSION 11 Challenges of spatial flood risk management 164 Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E. Wilkinson Index
£83.60
Imperial College Press Applied Uncertainty Analysis For Flood Risk
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction for flood risk management practitioners, up-to-date methods for analysis of uncertainty and its use in risk-based decision making. It addresses decision making for both short-term (real-time forecasting) and long-term (flood risk planning under change) situations. It aims primarily at technical practitioners involved in flood risk analysis and flood warning, including hydrologists, engineers, flood modelers, risk analysts and those involved in the design and operation of flood warning systems. Many experienced practitioners are now expected to modify their way of working to fit into the new philosophy of flood risk management. This volume helps them to undertake that task with appropriate attention to the surrounding uncertainties. The book will also interest and benefit researchers and graduate students hoping to improve their knowledge of modern uncertainty analysis.Table of ContentsAn Introduction to Flood Risk Management (K Beven); Uncertainties in Flood Risk Analysis for Planning, Design and System Management (K Beven); Uncertainties in Real Time Flood Forecasting (K Beven); Long Term Change in Flood Risk Management (J Hall); Decision Making for Flood Risk Management (J Hall); Future Integrated Flood Risk Analysis (K Beven & J Hall).
£193.50
Middlesex University Press Flood Manual
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£64.00
Park Books Aire: The River and its Double
Book SynopsisSouth of Geneva, Switzerland, the River Aire runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. From the late 19th century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, also causing the gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals. In 2001, decisions were taken to re-naturalise the river. Yet rather than to merely reconstruct its former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied 'topographic imagination', a method termed by American landscape designer Elissa Rosenberg. It combines the embanked channel with a newly designed pasture landscape. The channel indicates a work in progress and serves as a reference line that makes 'before' and 'after' traceable. This new book documents this much recognised, award-winning re-naturalisation project with drawings, images of construction work and of the new waterway. Essays and comments by international contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Marc Treib demonstrate how the restored River Aire has been upgraded to become again a characteristic feature of this landscape on the fringe of the city. Text in English, French and German.
£33.75
New India Publishing Agency Pesticides: Methods of Their Residues Estimation
Book SynopsisThis book delves into both traditional and modern analytical techniques utilized in the preparation of samples for the extraction, clean-up, detection, and estimation of pesticide residues in soil, water, and food commodities. It also covers some aspects of the Quenchers methods, which are a type of extraction cum clean-up technique. The book provides a brief history of pesticide development, as well as information on modern pesticides and the metabolic pathway of selected xenobiotics from different groups of pesticides. It discusses the latest analytical techniques, including TLC, GLC, HPLC, HPTLC, supercritical extraction, and chromatography, in a clear and concise manner. The book details the sampling, extraction, clean-up, and solid phase extraction techniques for residue analysis, as well as the recently developed multi-residue methods. The book has been updated with the help of numerous standard reference books and research papers, giving it a contemporary feel. Additionally, the book contains a glossary of pesticide residue terms, which can be incredibly helpful for beginners in this field. This book is an excellent resource for students seeking a comprehensive understanding of pesticides, their metabolism, and the various techniques used to estimate residues of toxic xenobiotics in all components of the environment. Overall, it is an excellent read for anyone interested in the field of pesticides and will prove highly valuable to researchers and professionals working in this area.
£34.75
New India Publishing Agency Pesticides: Methods of Their Residues Estimation
Book SynopsisThis book provides the traditional as well as modern analytical techniques used for sample preparation of different matrices for extraction, clean-up, detection and estimation of pesticide residues in soil, water and food commodities. It touches some aspects of most extraction cum clean-up techniques known as Quenchers methods. Brief history of pesticide development, modern pesticides and metabolic pathway of selected xenobiotics from different group of pesticides, imparts information on basic nature of pesticides. The book discusses latest analytical techniques like TLC, GLC, HPLC, HPTLC, super critical extraction and chromatography in simple but vivid manner. The sampling extraction, clean-up and solid phase extraction technique for residue analysis has been explained in the detail. Recently developed multi-residue methods have been outlined in a separate . Help from a number of standard reference books and research papers have given it a modern touch. Additionally a containing glossary of pesticide residue terms can be extremely helpful for a beginner in this fields. The book will provide students with sufficient background for the pesticides, their metabolism and above all various techniques for the estimation of residues of the toxic xenobiotics in all components of the environment. In short the book offers an excellent readable material for a knowledge seeker, may be a student or a research worker. It is that the book will prove highly valuable to all those who are engaged in the area of pesticides."Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Pesticide metabolism in insects, plants and animals. 3. Sampling, extraction and clean-up. 4. Thin layer chromatography TLC. 5. Gas liquid chromatography GC. High performance liquid chromatography HPLC. 7. Supercritical fluid chromatography SFC. 8. High performance thin layer chromatography HPTLC. 9. Maximum residue limits MRL. 10. Multi-residue methods for estimation of pesticide residues. 11. Glossary.
£53.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Flood Hazard Identification And Mitigation In
Book SynopsisAlluvial fans are ubiquitous geomorphological features that occur throughout the world, regardless of climate, at the front of mountains as the result of erosion and deposition. They are more prominent in semi- and arid climates simply because of the lack of vegetative cover that masks their fan shapes in more humid areas. From both engineering and geological viewpoints, alluvial fans present particular fluvial and sedimentation hazards in semi- and arid regions because episodic rainfall-runoff events can result in debris, mud, and fluvial flows through complex and, in some cases, migratory channel systems. Further, in semi- and arid climates alluvial fans often end in terminal or playa lakes. Given the uniform topography of playa lakes, these features often present ideal locations for facilities such as airports; however, regardless of the engineering advantages of the topography, the episodic and often long-term flooding of these lakes attracts migratory birds. The purpose of this volume is to summarize the current state-of-the-art, from the viewpoint of engineering, in the identification and mitigation of flood hazard on alluvial fans; and to accomplish this a fundamental understanding of geology is required.
£69.35
