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This uniquely comprehensive guide for engineers and scientists demonstrates the feasibility of an integrated approach that combines resilient infrastructure with adaptive flood risk management.

The book offers practical guidance on managing existing flood defences and designing and planning new ones. Key legislation is discussed together with insights into emerging flood risk management concepts and future developments in policy and practice. The authors address the core concepts of flood risk management and equip readers with the tools and techniques needed to better assess the reliability and adaptability of defences and ultimately make robust risk-based decisions.

Flood Risk is:

  • single resource covering fluvial, coastal and urban issues
  • globally applicable, highlighting the flood risk management lessons learned from international case studies
  • authored by an expert group of practising engineers and academic specialists
  • exte

    Table of Contents
    Introduction 1. Twenty-first Century flood risk management 2. Past failures and design lessons 3. Visual inspections and surveys, remote sensing techniques and sensors for detailed analyses of flood defence infrastructure 4. Supporting flood risk management through better design and management 5. Performance of coastal flood defences 6. Performance of fluvial defences 7. Urban drainage systems 8. Dams and reservoirs - regulations, performance and past failures Trash screens at culverts 9. Design for environmental improvements 10. Robust decision-making under uncertainty - towards adaptive and resilient flood risk management infrastructure 11. Managing flood risk in the Thames Estuary - the development of a long-term robust and flexible strategy 12. The 2001 flood of Houston and Harris County, Texas, USA 13. Design of an environmentally aligned flood alleviation scheme: the Burn of Mosset, Moray, Scotland 14. Glossary of terms

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      Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9780727741561, 978-0727741561
      ISBN10: 072774156X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This uniquely comprehensive guide for engineers and scientists demonstrates the feasibility of an integrated approach that combines resilient infrastructure with adaptive flood risk management.

      The book offers practical guidance on managing existing flood defences and designing and planning new ones. Key legislation is discussed together with insights into emerging flood risk management concepts and future developments in policy and practice. The authors address the core concepts of flood risk management and equip readers with the tools and techniques needed to better assess the reliability and adaptability of defences and ultimately make robust risk-based decisions.

      Flood Risk is:

      • single resource covering fluvial, coastal and urban issues
      • globally applicable, highlighting the flood risk management lessons learned from international case studies
      • authored by an expert group of practising engineers and academic specialists
      • exte

        Table of Contents
        Introduction 1. Twenty-first Century flood risk management 2. Past failures and design lessons 3. Visual inspections and surveys, remote sensing techniques and sensors for detailed analyses of flood defence infrastructure 4. Supporting flood risk management through better design and management 5. Performance of coastal flood defences 6. Performance of fluvial defences 7. Urban drainage systems 8. Dams and reservoirs - regulations, performance and past failures Trash screens at culverts 9. Design for environmental improvements 10. Robust decision-making under uncertainty - towards adaptive and resilient flood risk management infrastructure 11. Managing flood risk in the Thames Estuary - the development of a long-term robust and flexible strategy 12. The 2001 flood of Houston and Harris County, Texas, USA 13. Design of an environmentally aligned flood alleviation scheme: the Burn of Mosset, Moray, Scotland 14. Glossary of terms

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