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Urban Flood Management [Minkštas viršelis]

, , (University of Athens, Greece), (University of Sheffield, UK), (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany), (Pennine Water Group, Sheffield, UK)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 340 pages, aukštis x plotis: 276x219 mm, weight: 880 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Sep-2010
  • Leidėjas: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 0415559448
  • ISBN-13: 9780415559447
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 340 pages, aukštis x plotis: 276x219 mm, weight: 880 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 21-Sep-2010
  • Leidėjas: CRC Press
  • ISBN-10: 0415559448
  • ISBN-13: 9780415559447
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Raktažodžiai:
Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than half the deaths caused by natural catastrophes. As flood events appear to be rapidly increasing world-wide, an advanced and universal approach to urban flooding and how to manage will help reduce flood impact.

This textbook integrates expertise from disciplines such as hydrology, sociology, architecture, urban design, construction and water resources engineering. The subject is approached from an international perspective and case studies, exercises, expert advice and literature recommendations are included to support the theory and illustrations.

Developed by a team of specialists, this volume is intended for urban flood management education of hydrology, geography, civil and environmental engineering, and management students at university level. Moreover, professionals will find this book useful as a reference. More information on flood resilience and urban flood management can be found at www.floodresiliencegroup.org

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Recenzijos

" useful textbook for both students and teachers, encompassing an introduction to the topic before touching upon a number of drivers and solutions of urban flood risk in a slightly more advanced manner. ... This book lends a welcome clarity to a complex, evolving and contemporary subjectand one which will grow in importance throughout the twenty first century." Dr Iain White, University of Manchester

Preface ix
List of contributors
xi
Illustration credits
xv
Introduction to urban flood management 1(6)
What is this book all about?
3(4)
I SETTING UP THE FRAMEWORK
7(54)
1 Setting the stage for Integrated Urban Flood Management
9(28)
1.1 Why are cities special cases?
9(6)
1.2 The city as a living organism
15(3)
1.3 Vulnerability of urban areas: a rough guide
18(2)
1.4 Types of uncertainty
20(6)
1.5 Adoption of a system approach
26(11)
2 Urban floods
37(24)
2.1 The influence of climate and other factors
37(5)
2.2 Types of flooding
42(12)
2.3 Pitfalls in using the historical record (or `stationarity is dead')
54(7)
II DRIVERS FOR CHANGE
61(34)
3 Urbanisation
63(16)
3.1 Principles of land-use planning
63(4)
3.2 Urban typologies: from central square to edge city
67(4)
3.3 Growing and shrinking: density issues induced by globalisation
71(2)
3.4 Megacities in the delta
73(6)
4 Climate change: key uncertainties and robust findings
79(16)
4.1 A review of the past
79(6)
4.2 Signs of change
85(1)
4.3 Expected consequences
86(9)
III URBAN FLOOD RISK
95(60)
5 The hydrology of cities
97(26)
5.1 The hydrological cycle
97(6)
5.2 Land use and runoff
103(4)
5.3 Modelling surface runoff
107(6)
5.4 Modelling pluvial flooding
113(5)
5.5 Modelling coastal flooding
118(5)
6 Urban flood-risk assessment
123(32)
6.1 Introduction to the theory of risk
123(3)
6.2 Quantifying flood probability
126(12)
6.3 Tangible and intangible damages
138(3)
6.4 Loss of life estimation in flood-risk assessment
141(1)
6.5 Cross-scale factors and indirect damages
142(4)
6.6 Flood-risk mapping
146(9)
IV RESPONSES
155(98)
7 Responding to flood risk
157(26)
7.1 Responses
157(2)
7.2 Performance standards and expectations
159(5)
7.3 Resilience, vulnerability, robustness and sustainability
164(3)
7.4 Precautionary and adaptive responses
167(6)
7.5 Confronting flood management with land-use planning: lessons learnt
173(4)
7.6 Building types, infrastructure and public open space
177(6)
8 Urban drainage systems
183(22)
8.1 A historical perspective
183(1)
8.2 Major and minor flows
184(2)
8.3 SUDS/LIDS
186(12)
8.4 Practices in water sensitive urban design
198(7)
9 Flood proofing the urban fabric
205(22)
9.1 Managing flooding through site design: basic principles
205(3)
9.2 Managing flooding through detailed design (individual properties/buildings)
208(7)
9.3 Flood resilient repair and retrofitting
215(4)
9.4 Urban flood defences and barriers
219(8)
10 Enhancing coping and recovery capacity
227(26)
10.1 Flood forecasting, warning and response
227(8)
10.2 Emergency planning, management and evacuation
235(5)
10.3 Compensation and flood insurance
240(13)
V TOWARDS FLOOD RESILIENT CITIES
253(44)
11 Managing for resiliency
255(14)
11.1 Asset management, some basic principles
255(4)
11.2 Assessing resilience in flood-risk management
259(2)
11.3 Transitioning from entrapment to resilience approaches
261(8)
12 Capacity building and governance
269(12)
12.1 Risk perception, acceptance and communication
269(4)
12.2 Adaptive capacity
273(1)
12.3 Characteristics of effective learning initiatives
274(7)
13 Shelter for all
281(16)
13.1 What does the future hold?
281(1)
13.2 Challenges and opportunities
282(3)
13.3 Turning ideas into action
285(5)
13.4 Success stories: seizing windows of opportunity
290(7)
References 297(12)
Abbreviations and acronyms 309(2)
Glossary 311(8)
Subject index 319
Chris Zevenbergen is Professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Sytems at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, Director of the Flood Resilient Group in collaboration with Delft University of Technology and Managing Director of Business Development at DuraVermeer Group, The Netherlands. Dr. Zevebergen has Masters degree in Ecology from the Agricultural University Wageningen and a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering from the University Utrecht. He worked as a researcher on various environmental issues related to the building industry, such as environmental impact assessments, product development, emission modelling, testing procedures, building codes and guidelines in the 1980s followed by 10 years research and consultancy in environmental engineering and water management. He has a strong affinity with the ecological, socio-economic, institutional aspects of urban planning and water management. He is member of the board of the Dutch Living with Water programme and the Netherlands Water Partnership, member of the Japanese-Dutch platform on Water Management and chairman of the EU COST action C22 on Urban Flood Management. He holds several patents in the field of environmental engineering and delta-technology. On these research topics he has published about 40 articles and edited 3 books.