Floods. Risk management / 2, (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Risk management
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Freddy Vinet.
• Editors: Vinet, Freddy
• Contents: Part 1. Strategic and Technical Aspects of Flood Prevention ; 1. Flood Management in France from 18th to 20th Centuries: A State Issue?; 2. The French Flood Risk Management Model: Local Territories Facing State Omnipresency; 3. Management and Safety of Flood Defense Systems; 4. Coping Strategies in Dike Protected Areas; 5. Floods and Land Rights: From Risk Prevention Plans to Administrative Accountability and Penal Liability; 6. How Cost-Effective is Reducing the Vulnerability of Housing in Response to Flood Risk?; ; Part 2. Territories and Individuals at the Heart of Prevention; 7. Does the Watershed Represent a Key Area within Flood Risk Knowledge and Management?; 8. Sustainable Land Use Planning in Areas Exposed to Flooding: Some International Experiences; 9. Societal Choices in Flood Risk Management, from Individual Responsibility to National Policy; 10. Sustainable Flood Memories”: Developing Concept, Process and Practice in Flood Risk Management; 11. Integrating Anthropocentric Approaches into Flood Risk Management; ; Part 3. Anticipating and Managing Flood Events ; 12. Characteristics of Flood Events; 13. Effectiveness of Institutional Alert Tools in Flood Forecasting in France; 14. From Public Involvement to Citizen-based Initiatives: How Can Inhabitants Get Organized to Face Floods?; 15. Crowdsourcing and Crisis-Mapping in the Event of Floods: Tools and Challenges; 16. Flood Crisis Management: The Operational Perspective; 17. Local Crisis Management – The Communal Safety Plan: Challenges and Obstacles to Operationality; 18. Anticipating or Coping: Behaviors in the Face of Flash Floods; ; Part 4. Post-disaster Recovery and Adaptation ; 19. Disaster Memories and Population Resilience; 20. Economic Resilience, Total Loss Control and Risk Transfer; 21. Economic Assessment of Flood; 22. Flood Debris Management; 23. Post-Flood Recovery: An Opportunity for Disaster Risk Reduction?; 24. Towards an Urban Design Adapted to Flood Risk?
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.489; Floods -- Risk assessment; Flood control
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780081023846
• Related ISBNs: 9781785482694
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