Minnesota Status of Flood Plain Management
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Floodplains
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Floodplains
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Author : Bob Freitag
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610911326
A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance Program, which estimates that flooding causes at least six billion dollars in damages every year. Like rivers after a rainstorm, the financial costs are rising along with the toll on residents. And the worst is probably yet to come. Most scientists believe that global climate change will result in increases in flooding. The authors of this book present a straightforward argument: the time to stop a flooding rivers is before is before it floods. Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with our societal capabilities. It describes our present flood management practices, which are often based on dam or levee projects that do not incorporate the latest understandings about river processes. And it suggests that a better solution is to work with the natural tendencies of the river: retreat from the floodplain by preventing future development (and sometimes even removing existing structures); accommodate the effects of floodwaters with building practices; and protect assets with nonstructural measures if possible, and with large structural projects only if absolutely necessary.
Author : Jon A. Kusler
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Flood control
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Flood control
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Flood control
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Flood damage prevention
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Flood damage prevention
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Hydrology
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Author : Paul F. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1493923803
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, floodplain management of many lowland rivers has taken on new importance because of concerns about the potential for global environmental change to alter floodplain processes, necessitating revised management strategies that minimize flood risk while enhancing environmental attributes of floodplains influenced by local embankments and upstream dams. Recognition of the failure of old perspectives on river management and the need to enhance environmental sustainability has stimulated a new approach to river management. The manner that river restoration and integrated management are implemented, however, requires a case study approach that takes into account the impact of historic human impacts to the system, especially engineering. The river basins examined in this volume provide a representative coverage of the drainage of North America and Europe, taking into account a range of climatic and physiographic provinces. They include the 1) Sacramento (California, USA), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri, USA), 4) Red (Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, USA), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana, USA), 6) Kissimmee (Florida, USA), 7) Ebro (Spain), 8) Rhone (France), 9) Rhine (Netherlands), 10) Danube (Romania), and 11) Volga (Russian Federation) Rivers. The case studies covered in these chapters span a range of fluvial modes of adjustment, including sediment, channel, hydrologic regime, floodplains, as well as ecosystem and environmental associations.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Earthquakes
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