The Natural And Beneficial Functions Of Floodplains
Download The Natural And Beneficial Functions Of Floodplains full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Natural And Beneficial Functions Of Floodplains ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
A Unified National Program for Floodplain Management
Author | : United States. Interagency Task Force on Floodplain Management |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Flood control |
ISBN | : |
Prepared by the Interagency Task Force on Floodplain Management. Includes National Flood Insurance Program.
Floodplain Management Plan
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Flood control |
ISBN | : 9781742935539 |
"The Murrumbidgee River Hay to Maude Floodplain Management Plan (the FMP) has been prepared to provide strategic guidance to the NSW Government and landholders who are involved in the management of floodwaters on the Murrumbidgee River (Hay to Maude) floodplain. The vision for the FMP is: an environment where flood risk to occupiers and users of the floodplain is minimised and flood dependent ecosystems within the floodplain and on the downstream Lowbidgee floodplain are sustained by access to floodwaters"--Page 1.
Floodplains
Author | : Jeffrey J. Opperman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520294106 |
Introduction to temperate floodplains -- Hydrology -- Floodplain and geomorphology -- Biogeochemistry -- Ecology: introduction -- Floodplain forests -- Primary and secondary production -- Fish and other vertebrates -- Ecosystem services and floodplain reconciliation -- Floodplains as green infrastructure -- Case studies of floodplain management and reconciliation -- Central Valley floodplains: introduction and history -- Central Valley floodplains today -- Reconciling Central Valley floodplains -- Conclusions: managing temperate floodplains for multiple benefits
Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas
Author | : James Schwab |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Dwellings |
ISBN | : 9781611901870 |
Sustainability, resilience, and climate change are top of mind for planners and floodplain managers. For subdivision design, those ideas haven't hit home. The results? Catastrophic flood damage in communities across the country. This PAS Report is out to end the cycle of build-damage-rebuild and bring subdivision design into line with the best of floodplain planning. Readers will get the tools they need to save lives, protect property, and lay the foundation for a better future.
Mapping the Zone
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.
River Dynamics
Author | : Bruce L. Rhoads |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108173780 |
Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.
Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands
Author | : Paul F. Hudson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521768608 |
Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
Author | : Thomas Hartmann |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019-08-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 3030238423 |
This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more – and mostly privately owned – land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
Rivers of North America
Author | : Michael D. Delong |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 1109 |
Release | : 2023-04-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0128188480 |
Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river science: hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. This new edition expands upon the interactive nature of these disciplines, showing how they define the organization of a riverine landscape and its processes. An essential resource for river scientists working in ecology, hydrology, and geomorphology. - Provides a single source of information on North America's major rivers - Features authoritative information on more than 200 rivers from regional specialists - Includes full-color photographs and topographical maps to illustrate the beauty, major features, and uniqueness of each river system - Offers one-page summaries help readers quickly find key statistics and make comparisons among rivers