Download or read book Environmentally Compatible and Long term Flood Control Alternatives written by Friends of the Los Angeles River and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Floodplain Management written by Bob Freitag and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance Program, which estimates that flooding causes at least six billion dollars in damages every year. Like rivers after a rainstorm, the financial costs are rising along with the toll on residents. And the worst is probably yet to come. Most scientists believe that global climate change will result in increases in flooding. The authors of this book present a straightforward argument: the time to stop a flooding rivers is before is before it floods. Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with our societal capabilities. It describes our present flood management practices, which are often based on dam or levee projects that do not incorporate the latest understandings about river processes. And it suggests that a better solution is to work with the natural tendencies of the river: retreat from the floodplain by preventing future development (and sometimes even removing existing structures); accommodate the effects of floodwaters with building practices; and protect assets with nonstructural measures if possible, and with large structural projects only if absolutely necessary.
Download or read book Hastings Local Flood Protection Works Vermillion River written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamics and Resilience of River Cities as Coupled Human natural Systems written by Kuei-Hsien Liao and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world many river cities are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective for long-term flood safety. Flood control is also well-understood to be destructive to river-floodplain ecosystems through the homogenization of the biophysical environment and elimination of periodic flooding that maintains ecological functions. Despite these recognitions, it is still widely believed that flood control is indispensable in cities and that the associated ecological degradation is a necessary tradeoff for flood safety. This dissertation research challenges such conventional wisdom by understanding the dynamics of river cities as coupled human-natural systems whose system-level properties arise from the interactions of human and riverine processes, and by providing a theory for alternative urban flood hazard mitigation. This research is composed of three interrelated investigations that are presented as three independent chapters. The first chapter integrates disciplinary knowledge associated with flooding to provide an interdisciplinary account of the complex dynamics of human-nature couplings in cities dependent on flood-control infrastructure. Issues of flood control as a simple solution to a complex problem are discussed. The second chapter develops a theory of 'urban resilience to floods' as a theoretic framework for alternative flood hazard management to better respond to the inherent dynamics and complexity of river cities. I explain why flood control is in fact dispensable and argue for a paradigm shift from flood control to flood adaptation to create resilient "floodable" cities. The last chapter then links flood safety to river health, exploring the practical solutions to and demonstrating the ecological benefits of floodable cities, where periodic floods are accommodated rather than resisted. Overall, this dissertation research provides a new way of approaching urban flood hazards. It serves as a point of departure for developing design and planning theories and practices that explicitly address the interactions of the urban built environment and inherent environmental dynamics.
Download or read book Interactive Nonstructural Flood control Planning written by David T. Ford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of nonstructural flood-control planning are formulation, evaluation, selection, and implementation of a practicable management plan that provides optimal protection from the adverse effects of flooding. Many alternative flood-control measures can be dismissed by the water resources planner on the basis of judgement, but a substantial number will require detailed analysis before a suitable plan can be selected. This analysis is an iterative process, requiring input from the planar at each step. Software developed at the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) allows efficient data storage in a structure-oriented data bank and provides for selective retrieval and manipulation of the data from an interactive terminal. Thus the planner is able to propose nonstructural measures and to evaluate rapidly the economic and technical feasibility of those measures in a iterative scheme that allows the required input from the planner. An application of the interactive plan evaluation software is presented. Steps in creating the data bank are defined, and use of the software for subsequent accessing and manipulating the data for plan evaluation is discussed. (Author).
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Download or read book Integrated Post Authorization Decision Document for the San Luis Rey Flood Control Project from College Blvd to the Pacific Ocean San Diego County written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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