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Book Synopsis Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management by : Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Download or read book Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management written by Edmund Penning-Rowsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.
Book Synopsis Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management by : Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Download or read book Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management written by Edmund Penning-Rowsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.
Book Synopsis Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management by : Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Download or read book Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management written by Edmund Penning-Rowsell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It provides a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion and sea defence benefits.
Book Synopsis Future Flooding and Coastal Erosion Risks by : Colin R Thorne
Download or read book Future Flooding and Coastal Erosion Risks written by Colin R Thorne and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 200 billion worth of assets are at risk around British rivers and coasts and those risks are likely to increase over the next 100 years due to changes in climate and in society." Sir David King, Government Chief Scientific Adviser This book presents a comprehensive insight into the flooding system, spanning multiple disciplines across different sectors of the flood and flood management professions. It forecasts the manner in which flooding and coastal erosion risks may increase during the 21st century due to climate change.
Author :Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780108510595 Total Pages :57 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Understanding the Risks, Empowering Communities, Building Resilience by : Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Download or read book Understanding the Risks, Empowering Communities, Building Resilience written by Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood and coastal erosion risk in England is expected to increase due to climate change and development in areas at risk. It is not possible to prevent all flooding or coastal erosion, but there are actions that can be taken to manage these risks and reduce the impacts on communities. This strategy builds on existing approaches to flood and coastal risk management and promotes the use of a wide range of measures to manage risk. Risk should be managed in a co-ordinated way within catchments and along the coast and balance the needs of communities, the economy and the environment. This strategy will form the framework within which communities have a greater role in local risk management decisions and sets out the Environment Agency's strategic overview role in flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM). The strategy encourages more effective risk management by enabling people, communities, business, infrastructure operators and the public sector to work together to: ensure a clear understanding of the risks of flooding and coastal erosion, nationally and locally; set out clear and consistent plans for risk management; manage flood and coastal erosion risks in an appropriate way, taking account of the needs of communities and the environment; ensure that emergency plans and responses to flood incidents are effective and that communities are able to respond effectively to flood forecasts, warnings and advice; help communities to recover more quickly and effectively after incidents.
Author :Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780108510366 Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Understanding the Risks, Empowering Communities, Building Resilience by : Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Download or read book Understanding the Risks, Empowering Communities, Building Resilience written by Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Risks, Empowering Communities, Building Resilience : The National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England
Book Synopsis Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate by : Barbara Zanuttigh
Download or read book Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate written by Barbara Zanuttigh and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most vulnerable coastal environments such as deltas, estuaries and wetlands, where many large cities and industrial areas are located. Integrated risk assessment tools for considering the effects of climate change and related uncertainties Presents latest insights on coastal engineering defenses Provides integrated guidelines for setting up optimal mitigation measures Provides directly applicable tools for the design of mitigation measures Highlights socio-economic perspectives in coastal mitigation
Book Synopsis Construction Risk in Coastal Engineering by : Jonathan Simm
Download or read book Construction Risk in Coastal Engineering written by Jonathan Simm and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently an ongoing programme of UK harbour and marina development, encouraged by government investment. This book offers a detailed analysis of the risks involved in coastal engineering.
Download or read book Flood Risk written by P. B. Sayers and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood Risk: Planning, Design and Management of Flood Defence Infrastructure is the definitive practical handbook on design and maintenance of flood defences, providing a coherent and focused reference for best practice. This book is the first port of call for practising engineers working in the areas of flood risk management and drainage and includes contributions from experts in the field and also real life case studies. It covers the design of fluvial, coastal and urban flood defences, as well as guidance on relevant legislation, lessons learned from past disasters and means of improving the environment while managing flood risk. The intended audience is practising (graduate to senior level) engineers, hydrologists and project managers working on flood defence projects, mainly in consultancies but also in the Environment Agency and Local Authorities. About the author: Paul B. Sayers is a Partner at an independent consultancy specialising in the management of water environment and its associated risks. Previously a Director at HR Wallingford Ltd, Paul has over twenty years’ UK and international experience in all aspects of flood risk management. Paul led the development of the RASP methods and its application to the quantified analysis of climate impacts within the UK Foresight Future Flooding study. He advises on the Sustainable Asset Management theme of the Joint Defra/Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management research programme and leads the infrastructure management research within the UK Flood Risk Management Research Consortium. Co-published with ICE Publishing
Book Synopsis Flood risk management in England by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Flood risk management in England written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report finds that giving greater responsibility and discretion to local authorities to identify flood risk and target investment raises significant challenges, especially during a time of budget cuts and other newly devolved responsibilities. The NAO considers that greater value for money can be achieved through these reforms, but key elements of what is required are not yet in place. Local knowledge of surface water flood risk is far less advanced than national information on risk of flooding from rivers and the sea. Local authorities are having difficulty in recruiting and retaining appropriately qualified staff. Local decision-making is hampered by the need to cross-refer between nearly 20 different plans that affect local flood risk management. It is not yet clear how the Department and the Environment Agency will provide assurance nationally that arrangements are working. The Environment Agency has improved its efficiency since the NAO last reported in 2007. There is a better understanding of the condition of existing sea and river defences. It has brought 98 per cent of defences classified as 'high consequence' if they fail, up to target condition and is directing more of its funding towards these defences. The Agency estimates that, owing to climate change and ageing defences, an increase of £20 million is required on average each year between 2011 and 2035 to maintain the current level of flood protection. However, central government funding to the Agency has reduced by 10 per cent over this spending review period compared with the last. If central funding does not increase after 2014-15, defences will depend on significant additional funding being secured locally. Currently, some 95 per cent of funding is provided by central government. The NAO found that local bodies will be hard-pressed to plug any funding gap while under pressure to deliver a number of other newly devolved responsibilities. And the Department's plans to encourage more local funding could see some defence schemes that have attracted private or other funding going ahead in advance of schemes elsewhere that provide greater benefits.
Book Synopsis Managing Coastal Erosion by : National Research Council
Download or read book Managing Coastal Erosion written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more of the nation's vast coastlines are being filled with homes and vacation resorts. The result is an increasing number of structures built on erosion-prone shoresâ€"with many of these structures facing collapse or damage. In response to mounting property losses, Congress has given the Federal Emergency Management Agency responsibility for incorporating coastal erosion into its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This book from the National Research Council addresses the immediate question of how to develop an erosion insurance programâ€"as well as the larger issues raised by the continually changing face of our nation's shorelines. Managing Coastal Erosion explores major questions surrounding a national policy on coastal erosion: Should the federal government be in the business of protecting developers and individuals who build in erosion-prone coastal areas? How should such a program be implemented? Can it prompt more responsible management of coastal areas? The volume provides federal policymakers, state floodplain and resource managers, civil engineers, environmental groups, marine specialists, development companies, and researchers with invaluable information about the natural processes of coastal erosion and the effect of human activity on those processes. The book also details the workings of the NFIP, lessons to be learned from numerous state coastal management programs, and much more.
Author :Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780309305860 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (58 download)
Book Synopsis Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts by : Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction
Download or read book Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts written by Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and development in the most susceptible coastal areas. Climate change poses additional threats to coastal communities from sea level rise and possible increases in strength of the largest hurricanes. Several large cities in the United States have extensive assets at risk to coastal storms, along with countless smaller cities and developed areas. The devastation from Superstorm Sandy has heightened the nation's awareness of these vulnerabilities. What can we do to better prepare for and respond to the increasing risks of loss? Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts reviews the coastal risk-reduction strategies and levels of protection that have been used along the United States East and Gulf Coasts to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding associated with storm surges. This report evaluates their effectiveness in terms of economic return, protection of life safety, and minimization of environmental effects. According to this report, the vast majority of the funding for coastal risk-related issues is provided only after a disaster occurs. This report calls for the development of a national vision for coastal risk management that includes a long-term view, regional solutions, and recognition of the full array of economic, social, environmental, and life-safety benefits that come from risk reduction efforts. To support this vision, Reducing Coastal Risk states that a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify those areas with the greatest risks that are high priorities for risk reduction efforts. The report discusses the implications of expanding the extent and levels of coastal storm surge protection in terms of operation and maintenance costs and the availability of resources. Reducing Coastal Risk recommends that benefit-cost analysis, constrained by acceptable risk criteria and other important environmental and social factors, be used as a framework for evaluating national investments in coastal risk reduction. The recommendations of this report will assist engineers, planners and policy makers at national, regional, state, and local levels to move from a nation that is primarily reactive to coastal disasters to one that invests wisely in coastal risk reduction and builds resilience among coastal communities.
Book Synopsis Integrating cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis of flood and coastal erosion risk management projects by : Robert Sugden
Download or read book Integrating cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis of flood and coastal erosion risk management projects written by Robert Sugden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 469,000 households and business in England are at risk of flooding and this figure is likely to rise of the next century because of factors such as climate change. The Environment Agency is responsible for managing the risk from main rivers and the sea in England and Wales. This report looks at their maintenance of 24,000 miles of flood defences and the construction of new defences. It notes the progress made since the last report in 2001 (HC 299 2000-01) and sets out the areas where there is room for further improvement.
Book Synopsis Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice by : Paul Samuels
Download or read book Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice written by Paul Samuels and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Based on the work of leading researchers, this book provides an overview of advances in this important subject. It covers all aspects of flood risk including the causes of floods; their impacts on people, property and the environment; and portfolios of risk management measurement. Additional topics include climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modeling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programs, and flood defense infrastructure and assets. The book also examines environmental, human, and social impacts; vulnerability and resilience; risk sharing; and civil contingency planning and emergency management.
Book Synopsis Developing the Cost-benefit Framework for the Appraisal of Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Projects by : Robert Sugden
Download or read book Developing the Cost-benefit Framework for the Appraisal of Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Projects written by Robert Sugden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mitigation of Flood and Erosion Damage to Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas by : United States. Federal Insurance Administration
Download or read book Mitigation of Flood and Erosion Damage to Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas written by United States. Federal Insurance Administration and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
