Reducing Damage from Localized Flooding
Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drainage |
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Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drainage |
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Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drainage |
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Author | : United States. Federal Emergency Management Administration |
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Release | : 2008* |
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Author | : Association of State Floodplain Managers |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Flood control |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000-10-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309132894 |
Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, and geotechnical and structural engineering. Dams, levees, and other river-training works must be sized to local conditions; geotechnical theories and applications help ensure that structures will safely withstand potential hydraulic and seismic forces; and economic considerations must be balanced to ensure that reductions in flood damages are proportionate with project costs and associated impacts on social, economic, and environmental values. A new National Research Council report, Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, reviews the Corps of Engineers' risk-based techniques in its flood damage reduction studies and makes recommendations for improving these techniques. Areas in which the Corps has made good progress are noted, and several steps that could improve the Corps' risk-based techniques in engineering and economics applications for flood damage reduction are identified. The report also includes recommendations for improving the federal levee certification program, for broadening the scope of flood damage reduction planning, and for improving communication of risk-based concepts.
Author | : Illinois. Governor's Task Force on Flood Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Flood control |
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Author | : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Sacramento District |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Flood control |
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Author | : Oliver P. Chin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Flood damage prevention |
ISBN | : 9781606921470 |
Responsibility for flood risk management in the United States is a shared responsibility between multiple Federal, State, and local government agencies with a complex set of programs and authorities. Nationally, both the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have programs to assist states and communities in reducing flood damages and promoting sound flood risk management. The authority to determine how land is used in floodplains and to enforce flood-wise requirements is entirely the responsibility of state and local government. Floodplain management choices made by state and local officials, in turn, impact the effectiveness of federal programs to mitigate flood risk and the performance of federal flood damage reduction infrastructure. One key challenge is to ensure that as the public and government leaders make flood risk management decisions, they integrate environmental, social, and economic factors and consider all available tools to improve public safety. Importantly, the public must be educated both as to the risks they face and actions they can take to reduce their risks. Because of this complex arrangement of responsibilities, only a life-cycle, comprehensive and collaborative systems approach will enable communities to sustain an effective reduction of risks from flooding.