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Floods. 2, Risk management /
This book discusses flood risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to prioritize risk reduction, disaster costs, potential flood zone development, prevention, existing policies, and mitigation tools such as: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulner...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK : Kidlington, Oxford, UK :
ISTE Press ; Elsevier,
2017.
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| Colección: | Floods
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Strategic and Technical Aspects of Flood Prevention ; 1. Flood Management in France from 18th to 20th Centuries: A State Issue?; 2. The French Flood Risk Management Model: Local Territories Facing State Omnipresency; 3. Management and Safety of Flood Defense Systems; 4. Coping Strategies in Dike Protected Areas; 5. Floods and Land Rights: From Risk Prevention Plans to Administrative Accountability and Penal Liability; 6. How Cost-Effective is Reducing the Vulnerability of Housing in Response to Flood Risk?; ; Part 2.
- Territories and Individuals at the Heart of Prevention; 7. Does the Watershed Represent a Key Area within Flood Risk Knowledge and Management?; 8. Sustainable Land Use Planning in Areas Exposed to Flooding: Some International Experiences; 9. Societal Choices in Flood Risk Management, from Individual Responsibility to National Policy; 10. Sustainable Flood Memories#x94;: Developing Concept, Process and Practice in Flood Risk Management; 11. Integrating Anthropocentric Approaches into Flood Risk Management; ; Part 3.
- Anticipating and Managing Flood Events ; 12. Characteristics of Flood Events; 13. Effectiveness of Institutional Alert Tools in Flood Forecasting in France; 14. From Public Involvement to Citizen-based Initiatives: How Can Inhabitants Get Organized to Face Floods?; 15. Crowdsourcing and Crisis-Mapping in the Event of Floods: Tools and Challenges; 16. Flood Crisis Management: The Operational Perspective; 17. Local Crisis Management
- The Communal Safety Plan: Challenges and Obstacles to Operationality; 18. Anticipating or Coping: Behaviors in the Face of Flash Floods; ; Part 4. Post-disaster Recovery and Adaptation ; 19. Disaster Memories and Population Resilience; 20. Economic Resilience, Total Loss Control and Risk Transfer; 21. Economic Assessment of Flood; 22. Flood Debris Management; 23. Post-Flood Recovery: An Opportunity for Disaster Risk Reduction?; 24. Towards an Urban Design Adapted to Flood Risk?