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Book Synopsis Floodplain Management in Australia by : Csiro
Download or read book Floodplain Management in Australia written by Csiro and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floodplain Management in Australia comprises a full and detailed discussion of best practice principles and guidelines of floodplain management in Australia. These principles and guidelines have been developed to assist all levels of government, the private sector and the community to manage, in partnership, the flood risk associated with Australia's floodplains on a sustainable basis for the benefit of both present and future generations. The book provides a better understanding of flood behaviour, flood risk and the consequences of flooding. It puts forward the ways in which these issues can be addressed using best practice guidelines to foster the optimal use of the nation's floodplains. It consists of five Chapters and 16 Appendices, a glossary of technical terms and a list of references and further reading. The main text is preceded by a summary of best practice principles for floodplain management
Author :Australian Water Resources Council Staff Publisher :Australian Government Pub Service ISBN 13 :9780644253949 Total Pages :176 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (539 download)
Book Synopsis Floodplain Management in Australia by : Australian Water Resources Council Staff
Download or read book Floodplain Management in Australia written by Australian Water Resources Council Staff and published by Australian Government Pub Service. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Role of Regional Authorities in Floodplain Management in Australia by : Jennifer McKay
Download or read book The Role of Regional Authorities in Floodplain Management in Australia written by Jennifer McKay and published by . This book was released on 1984* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Australian Water Resources Council. Department of Resources and Energy Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780644044059 Total Pages :53 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Guidelines for Floodplain Management in Australia by : Australian Water Resources Council. Department of Resources and Energy
Download or read book Guidelines for Floodplain Management in Australia written by Australian Water Resources Council. Department of Resources and Energy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Floodplain Management in Australia: Executive summary by :
Download or read book Floodplain Management in Australia: Executive summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Western Australian Floodplain Management Strategy by : Western Australia. Floodplain Management Council
Download or read book Western Australian Floodplain Management Strategy written by Western Australia. Floodplain Management Council and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Residential Flood Insurance by : David Ingle Smith
Download or read book Residential Flood Insurance written by David Ingle Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Framework for Floodplain Management in Western Australia with a Focus on Carnarvon by : Western Australia. Ministerial Taskforce into Floodplain Management
Download or read book A Framework for Floodplain Management in Western Australia with a Focus on Carnarvon written by Western Australia. Ministerial Taskforce into Floodplain Management and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A taskforce to review floodplain management focussing on Carnavon was commissioned by the Minister for Water Resources in Novemeber 1997 ... This report is intended to provide a review of the current state of floodplain management and proposes a model for reform of the administration and management of floodplain management activities... "--Preface.
Book Synopsis Living with Floods by : Caroline Wenger
Download or read book Living with Floods written by Caroline Wenger and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the serious flood events in Queensland and Victoria in 2010-11, and the reviews that were undertaken subsequently, this project was developed to analyse those reviews to determine whether they offered any lessons for climate change adaptation. Focusing on four major and recent reviews, but drawing on others as well, the project's objectives were to:- explain the relationships between floods and climate variability, and climate change adaptation - synthesise the findings from the flood inquiries in Victoria and Queensland by ordering key lessons into frameworks that aid climate change adaptation by end-users - check the lessons from these Australian inquiries against lessons for more effective flood-risk management that have been identified overseas to explore positive synergies and differences - refine the draft research finding with advice from end-users through interviews and a committee, and - communicate the lessons for climate change adaptation and limits to adaptation with key end-users involved in flood risk management. In addition to analysing the Australian flood reviews, the project also compared review processes and findings with similar processes overseas, including those in the Netherlands, China and the United States, to determine points of similarity that reinforced Australian findings and to explore differences. In addition to analysing the reviews themselves, the project team also conducted a series of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with relevant sectors, including insurance, emergency services, floodplain managers, ecosystem researchers, local government and urban utilities."--Page v.
Download or read book Managing the Floodplain written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flood Management in a Changing Climate by : Caroline Elizabeth Balean Wenger
Download or read book Flood Management in a Changing Climate written by Caroline Elizabeth Balean Wenger and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010-2011 Australia experienced its most expensive floods in history with costs to insurers and state and federal governments exceeding A$10 billion. Climate and population changes are likely to increase future flood threats and economists estimate that by 2050, even without factoring in climate change, Australia's natural disaster damage bill could reach $33 billion per year. Flood management is thus a key area for improving adaptive capacity. While the causes of flooding are well-known, effective solutions have proved elusive and some flood management options may be maladaptive in the longer term. There were contradictions in flood management literature. Some sources categorized structural measures such as dykes and levees as adaptation measures. Others warned about their negative impacts. Meanwhile, innovative approaches used overseas appeared little known or used in Australia. Although structural measures were often criticized in adaptation literature, there was a lack of guidance about how to reduce reliance on them. Similarly, resilience researchers with a social-ecological systems perspective argued the need to identify policy and institutional interventions that would make it possible to move from undesirable to more desirable resilience domains. The challenge was therefore to determine how best to adapt to increasing flood risk, and how to facilitate the adoption of adaptive approaches. A key question was whether adaptive approaches used elsewhere were transferrable to Australia. Given the dominance of resilience theory in modern disaster management, a related research aim was to determine whether or not disaster resilience policy was likely to achieve adaptive outcomes. Literature review was the primary research method, supplemented with semi-structured interviews. Sources included recent flood reviews, academic literature, policy and legal documents. These were used to develop comparative case studies from China, The Netherlands, the United States and Australia. This was extended to cover global organizations for the resilience component of the work. Data analysis drew on literature relating to adaptation, resilience, comparative public policy, institutional theory and emergency management. Resilience interpretations were identified in a systematic way using a modified emergency management framework, complemented with narratives. Results revealed that resilience interpretations varied according to country, with Australia tending to be the least adaptive and the Netherlands the most. This reflects changes in attitudes towards structural mitigation. While support for structural mitigation remains strong in Australia, recent flood events in other countries have exposed its weaknesses. This has resulted in a shift to reduce levee dependency, accompanied by support for alternatives such as ecosystem based measures and development relocation. Such measures encounter significant barriers in Australia, making policy transfer problematic. Nevertheless, case studies revealed opportunities to improve program implementation, and investigation of path dependency associated with structural mitigation identified opportunities to alter feedbacks. Regarding application of resilience theory to disaster management, it was found that while resilience is a useful concept for researchers, there are problems when it is operationalised. A better focus for practitioners would be to negotiate long-term adaptation pathways.
Author :Joint State and Local Government Committee on Urban Flood Management Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (22 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Flood Management in South Australia by : Joint State and Local Government Committee on Urban Flood Management
Download or read book Urban Flood Management in South Australia written by Joint State and Local Government Committee on Urban Flood Management and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Johnstone River Floodplain Management Plan by : WBM Oceanics Australia
Download or read book Johnstone River Floodplain Management Plan written by WBM Oceanics Australia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Application of Integrated Catchment Management to Floodplain Management in New Wales, Australia by : Neil Benning
Download or read book Application of Integrated Catchment Management to Floodplain Management in New Wales, Australia written by Neil Benning and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flood Preparedness by : Emergency Management Australia Staff
Download or read book Flood Preparedness written by Emergency Management Australia Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood Country written by Emily O'Gorman and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and complex history of this region, examining the different ways in which floods have been understood and managed and some of the long-term consequences for people, rivers and ecologies. The book examines many tensions, ranging from early exchanges between Aboriginal people and settlers about the dangers of floods, through to long running disputes between graziers and irrigators over damming floodwater, and conflicts between residents and colonial governments over whose responsibility it was to protect townships from floods. Flood Country brings the Murray-Darling Basin's flood history into conversation with contemporary national debates about climate change and competing access to water for livelihoods, industries and ecosystems. It provides an important new historical perspective on this significant region of Australia, exploring how people, rivers and floods have re-made each other.
Book Synopsis A River with a City Problem by : Margaret Cook
Download or read book A River with a City Problem written by Margaret Cook and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment, especially those in 1893, 1974 and 2011. Extensively researched, it highlights the force of nature, the vagaries of politics and the power of community. With many river cities facing urban development challenges, Cook makes a convincing argument for what must change to prevent further tragedy.