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  title info:
    title: Managing Flood Risk
    sub title: Innovative Approaches from Big Floodplain Rivers and Urban Streams
  name:
    name part: Serra-Llobet, Anna.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Kondolf, G. Mathias.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Schaefer, Kathleen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Nicholson, Scott.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 164 p. 27 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability. Rather than rely only on engineering structures to reduce flood magnitude or extent, recent policies emphasize avoiding construction in flood-prone areas (or moving people from floodplains), reducing impacts on exposed populations through early warning systems, and insurance to aid in recovery. Implementing this new approach faces many challenges but also offers opportunities for synergies, as described in this book for a range of large floodplain rivers and smaller urban streams across North America and Europe. This book is unique in presenting the voices of those on the front lines of implementing a new paradigm in flood risk management, each river with a unique set of challenges and opportunities derived from its specific geography as well as differences in governance between the American and European contexts. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Big River Basins -- 2. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the US: The Mississippi River -- 3. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the US: The Sacramento River -- 4. Managing Floods in Large River Basins in Europe: The Rhine River -- Part II Urban Streams -- 5. Managing Floods in Mediterranean-Climate Urban Catchments: Experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area (California, US) and the Tagus Estuary (Portugal) -- 6. Managing Floods in Urban Catchments: Experiences in Denver Area (Colorado, US) and Geneva (Switzerland) -- 7. Conclusion .-.
  note: edited by Anna Serra-Llobet, G. Mathias Kondolf, Kathleen Schaefer, Scott Nicholson.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sociology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Hydrology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
  subject:
    topic: Hydrology/Water Resources
  classification: G143
  classification: 333.709
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319716732
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71673-2
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    record creation date: 180331
    record change date: 20191022032734.0
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