Beyond The Flood Maps
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| Author | : Zoé A. Hamstead |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2021-04-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3030631311 |
This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2009-06-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309130573 |
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps portray the height and extent to which flooding is expected to occur, and they form the basis for setting flood insurance premiums and regulating development in the floodplain. As such, they are an important tool for individuals, businesses, communities, and government agencies to understand and deal with flood hazard and flood risk. Improving map accuracy is therefore not an academic question-better maps help everyone. Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the population has maps that meet or exceed national flood hazard data quality thresholds. Even when floodplains are mapped with high accuracy, land development and natural changes to the landscape or hydrologic systems create the need for continuous map maintenance and updates. Mapping the Zone examines the factors that affect flood map accuracy, assesses the benefits and costs of more accurate flood maps, and recommends ways to improve flood mapping, communication, and management of flood-related data.
| Author | : Richard S. Hess |
| Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780931464881 |
| Author | : Elisabeth C. Rosenberg |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643136453 |
In the tradition of Silent Spring, a modern parable of the American experience and our paradoxical relationship with the natural world. Though it seems a part of the "natural" landscape of New England today, the Swift River Valley reservoir, dam, dike, and nature area was a triumph of civil engineering. It combined forward-looking environmental stewardship and social policy, yet the “little people”—and the four towns in which they lived—got lost along the way. Elisabeth Rosenberg has crafted Before the Flood to be both a modern and a universal story in a time when managed retreat will one day be a reality. Meticulously researched, Before the Flood, is the first narrative book on the incredible history of the Swift River Valley and the origins Quabbin Reservoir. Rosenberg dive into the socioeconomic and psychological aspects of the Swift River Valley’s destruction in order to supply drinking water for the growing populations of Boston and wider Massachusetts. It is as much a human story as the story of water and landscape, and Before the Flood movingly reveals both the stories and the science of the key players and the four flooded towns that were washed forever away.
| Author | : James F. Barnett, Jr. |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-04-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781496852113 |
A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysm
| Author | : Guy J-P. Schumann |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2018-07-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1119217865 |
Global Flood Hazard Subject Category Winner, PROSE Awards 2019, Earth Science Selected from more than 500 entries, demonstrating exceptional scholarship and making a significant contribution to the field of study. Flooding is a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to land, property and infrastructure. This volume describes the latest tools and technologies for modeling, mapping, and predicting large-scale flood risk. It also presents readers with a range of remote sensing data sets successfully used for predicting and mapping floods at different scales. These resources can enable policymakers, public planners, and developers to plan for, and respond to, flooding with greater accuracy and effectiveness. Describes the latest large-scale modeling approaches, including hydrological models, 2-D flood inundation models, and global flood forecasting models Showcases new tools and technologies such as Aqueduct, a new web-based tool used for global assessment and projection of future flood risk under climate change scenarios Features case studies describing best-practice uses of modeling techniques, tools, and technologies Global Flood Hazard is an indispensable resource for researchers, consultants, practitioners, and policy makers dealing with flood risk, flood disaster response, flood management, and flood mitigation.
| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
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| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Flood damage prevention |
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| Author | : United States |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
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| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Buildings |
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When in doubt, throw it out. Don't risk injury or infection. 2: Ask for help. Many people can do a lot of the cleanup and repairs discussed in this book. But if you have technical questions or do not feel comfortable doing something, get professional help. If there is a federal disaster declaration, a telephone "hotline" will often be publicized to provide information about public, private, and voluntary agency programs to help you recover from the flood. Government disaster programs are there to help you, the taxpayer. You're paying for them; check them out. 3: Floodproof. It is very likely that your home will be flooded again someday. Floodproofing means using materials and practices that will prevent or minimize flood damage in the future. Many floodproofing techniques are inexpensive or can be easily incorporated into your rebuilding program. You can save a lot of money by floodproofing as you repair and rebuild (see Step 8).
