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Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response: (No. 118 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response: (No. 118 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)


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Recent catastrophes, from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the ravaging of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the 2007 floods in Bangladesh, England, and Texas, have made the world very ware of the need for better management of the response to flooding and of the rehabilitation of damaged areas. This book contains papers originally presented at the First International Conference on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response (FRIAR), held in London, UK, which brought together academics, practitioner, and government officials to share information on the state of the art in this field.The conference papers address one of six main themes: Risk management in relation to flood events and climate change; Pre-event planning (both short- and long-term) and business continuity; Management of major events so that coherent and seamless frameworks of support are created; Post damage restoration and recovery; Victims of flooding - including physiological and psychological public health risks; and International and national government policy.This book contains papers originally presented at the First International Conference on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response (FRIAR), held in London, UK. The papers presented at the conference are grouped into the following six main themes. Within the themes, papers cover such topics as: Flood defence methods; Financial and insurance issues; Coping strategies; Adaptive capacity; and Rural vs urban community approaches. The book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, planners and all others interested in the topic of flooding.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Flood risk analysis and vulnerability assessment Special session organised by D. De Wrachien Risk analysis and vulnerability assessment in flood protection and river basin management; Flood-risk assessment and hazard mitigation measures: case studies and lessons learnt in Italy; Flood risk modelling with LiDAR technology; The October 2000 flood at the Po river and Sesia river junction; Can the basin morphology alone provide an insight into floodplain delineation? Section 2: Flood risk management Two-dimensional urban flood simulation: Fukuoka flood disaster in 1999; Flood management in the low lands: from probability to risk; Flood risk consideration: a new paradigm? Urban examples in the middle valley of the Loire River (France); Systemic nature of, and diversification in systems exposed to, flood risk Section 3: Flood defence methods Assessment of extreme discharges of the Vltava River in Prague; From hazard reduction to integrated risk management: toward adaptive flood prevention in Europe; History of flood fighting in the Kisosansen River Basin; Flood defense in Bekasi City, Indonesia; Possibilities of hydraulic and hydrology simulation models as support to conventional methods for the limit of hazard zones by the example of the Donnersbach stream; Web-GIS application for flood prediction and monitoring; An insight into flood frequency for design floods; Applications and risks associated with a low cost flood defence barrier; Risk management in flood events Section 4: Rehabilitation and restoration Restoration projects and mitigation of post-flood hazards - a case study on the Maruyama River in Japan; The industrialisation of UK flood damage repairs; Rehabilitation and restoration of flood-damaged lowlands - an example in the Tokyo Lowlands; Section 5: Urban flood management - innovation in building resilience Special session organised by C. Zevenbergen Adapting to climate change: using urban renewal in managing long-term flood risk; Integration of resiliency measures into flood risk management concepts of communities; Efficiency of private flood proofing of new buildings - adapted redevelopment of a floodplain in The Netherlands Section 6: Coping strategies Recent developments in loss of life and evacuation modelling for flood event management in the UK; Urban flood control policy for sustainability under global warming in Japan; Differential vulnerability in coastal communities: evidence and lessons learned from two deltas; Flood precaution and coping with floods of companies in Germany; Cascading flood compartments with adaptive response Section 7: Financial and insurance issues Development and evaluation of FLEMOps - a new Flood Loss Estimation MOdel for the private sector; Flood insurance in the UK - a survey of the experience of floodplain residents; From flood risk to indirect flood impact: evaluation of street network performance for effective management, response and repair


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  • ISBN-13: 9781845641320
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: WIT Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845641329
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: No. 118 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment


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