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Author :Michigan). Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (16th : 1992 : Grand Rapids Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :320 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (112 download)
Book Synopsis Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, May 18-22, 1992, Grand Rapids, Michigan by : Michigan). Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (16th : 1992 : Grand Rapids
Download or read book Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, May 18-22, 1992, Grand Rapids, Michigan written by Michigan). Annual Conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (16th : 1992 : Grand Rapids and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Floodplain Management by : Bob Freitag
Download or read book Floodplain Management written by Bob Freitag and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management by : Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference
Download or read book Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management written by Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management by : Association of State Floodplain Managers
Download or read book Multiobjective Approaches to Floodplain Management written by Association of State Floodplain Managers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Using Multi-objective Management to Reduce Flood Losses in Your Watershed by :
Download or read book Using Multi-objective Management to Reduce Flood Losses in Your Watershed written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Protecting Floodplain Resources by :
Download or read book Protecting Floodplain Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Floodplain Management Report by : California Floodplain Management Task Force
Download or read book California Floodplain Management Report written by California Floodplain Management Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land by : Thomas Hartmann
Download or read book Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land written by Thomas Hartmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more – and mostly privately owned – land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
Book Synopsis Multi-objective Analysis for Ecosystem Reconciliation on an Engineered Floodplain by : Robyn Jean Suddeth
Download or read book Multi-objective Analysis for Ecosystem Reconciliation on an Engineered Floodplain written by Robyn Jean Suddeth and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floodplains in California and elsewhere are extremely productive habitats with high levels of biodiversity, yet they are often permanently disconnected from rivers by urban or agricultural development. This poses a potential threat to the many native fish, bird and other species that evolved to take advantage of seasonal floodplain inundation. The traditional restoration approach to this problem would recreate historical floodplain in some places by restoring natural hydrologic and successional processes. However levees, dams, and development prevent this approach in much of California. Reconciliation ecology recognizes this limitation, and encourages instead the re-engineering of human dominated landscapes so that native species and human uses can sustainably co-exist. Flood control bypasses are a particularly promising location for reconciling historical fish and bird uses of floodplain habitats with human uses. However the reconciliation approach requires nuanced management of a complex multi-purpose system. This study proposes the use of formal multi-objective optimization to help planners choose management options that best improve habitat quality for fish and birds with minimal costs to farmers or wetland managers. Models like the one developed here can integrate large amounts of data and knowledge, and explicitly account for the relationships and tradeoffs among different objectives. This is especially useful in reconciliation planning where many uses and variables interact on a landscape, and deliberate re-engineering requires considering many decisions simultaneously. Results suggest several land use changes and inundation management strategies on the Yolo Bypass that can significantly improve seasonal bird and fish habitat at very little cost to farmers and other human uses. The model applications herein demonstrate the usefulness of multi-objective optimization in reconciling managed floodplains, and provide a framework for integrating new knowledge and testing varying assumptions to improve management over time.
Book Synopsis Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management by : John Gardiner
Download or read book Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management written by John Gardiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management discusses all aspects of floodplain management related to defence from floods, including specific issues such as the maintenance of flood defences, and reveals many aspects of a more holistic approach to the management of flood risk, expanding the structural/non-structural debate into prevention and cure in the floodplain and its catchment. Recent experience in many countries is recounted by experts from Hungary, Austria, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK and the USA.
Book Synopsis Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis by : Muhammet Gul
Download or read book Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis written by Muhammet Gul and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) includes methods and tools for modeling and solving complex problems. MCDM has become popular in the production and service sectors to improve the quality of service, reduce costs, and make people more prosperous. This book illustrates applications through case studies focused on disaster management. With a presentation of both Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) and Multi-Objective Decision-Making (MODM) models, this is the first book to merge these methods and tools with disaster management. This book raises awareness for society and decision-makers on how to measure readiness and what necessary preventive measures need to be taken. It offers models and case studies that can be easily adapted to solve complex problems and find solutions in other fields. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Case Studies in Disaster Management will offer new insights to researchers working in the areas of industrial engineering, systems engineering, healthcare systems, operations research, mathematics, business, computer science, and disaster management, and, hopefully, the book will also stimulate further work in MCDM.
Book Synopsis The Use of Real Options and Multi-objective Optimisation in Flood Risk Management by : Michelle Woodward
Download or read book The Use of Real Options and Multi-objective Optimisation in Flood Risk Management written by Michelle Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of suitable long term flood risk intervention strategies is a challenge. Climate change alone is a significant complication but in addition complexities exist trying to identify the most appropriate set of interventions, the area with the highest economical benefit and the most opportune time for implementation. All of these elements pose difficulties to decision makers. Recently, there has been a shift in the current practice for appraising potential strategies and consideration is now being given to ensure flexible, adaptive strategies to account for the uncertain climatic conditions. Real Options in particular is becoming an acknowledged approach to account for the future uncertainties inherent in a flood risk investment decision. Real Options facilitates adaptive strategies as it enables the value of flexibility to be explicitly included within the decision making process. Opportunities are provided for the decision maker to modify and update investments when knowledge of the future state comes to light. In this thesis the use of Real Options in flood risk management is investigated as a method to account for the uncertainties of climate change. Each Intervention strategy is purposely designed to capture a level of flexibility and have the ability to adapt in the future ifrequired. A state of the art flood risk analysis tool is employed to evaluate GB the risk associated to each strategy over future points in time. In addition to Real Options, this thesis also en- explores the use of evolutionary optimisation algorithms to aid the decision making process when identifying the most appropriate long term strategies. Although the risk analysis tool is capable of quantifying the potential benefits attributed to a strategy, it is not necessarily able to identify the most appropriate. Methods are required which can search for the optimal solutions according to a range of performance metrics. Single and multi-objective genetic algorithms are investigated in this thesis as a method to search for the most appropriate long term intervention strategies. The Real Options concepts are combined with the evolutionary multiobjective optimisation algorithm to create a decision support methodology which is capable of searching for the most appropriate long term economical yet robust intervention strategies which are flexible to future change. The methodology is applied to two individual case studies, a section of the Thames Estuary and an area on the River Dodder. The results show the inclusion of flexibility is advantageous while the outputs provide decision makers with supplementary knowledge which previously has not been considered.
Book Synopsis Managing Flood Risk by : Anna Serra-Llobet
Download or read book Managing Flood Risk written by Anna Serra-Llobet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from ‘flood control’ to ‘flood risk management’, recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability. Rather than rely only on engineering structures to reduce flood magnitude or extent, recent policies emphasize avoiding construction in flood-prone areas (or moving people from floodplains), reducing impacts on exposed populations through early warning systems, and insurance to aid in recovery. Implementing this new approach faces many challenges but also offers opportunities for synergies, as described in this book for a range of large floodplain rivers and smaller urban streams across North America and Europe. This book is unique in presenting the voices of those on the front lines of implementing a new paradigm in flood risk management, each river with a unique set of challenges and opportunities derived from its specific geography as well as differences in governance between the American and European contexts.
Book Synopsis Floodplain Management in the United States: Full report by :
Download or read book Floodplain Management in the United States: Full report written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Floodplain Management in the United States by :
Download or read book Floodplain Management in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sharing the Challenge by : Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.)
Download or read book Sharing the Challenge written by Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Systems Approach to Management of Disasters by : Slobodan P. Simonovic
Download or read book Systems Approach to Management of Disasters written by Slobodan P. Simonovic and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of this text is to introduce the systems approach to disasters management community as an alternative approach that can provide support for interdisciplinary activities involved in the management of disasters. The systems approach draws on the fields of operations research and economics to create skills in solving complex management problems. The text is organized into four parts. Part I provides an introductory discussion of disaster management including an overview of the main terms used. Part II is devoted to the introduction of systems theory, mathematical formalization and classification of methods. The material presented in this section should be of practical relevance during the process of selecting an appropriate tool for the solution of a problem. Part III is technical in nature, providing a simulation approach and a detailed description of system dynamics simulation. This section details two areas of application: flood evacuation simulation, and disaster risk assessment. Part IV ends with a chapter covering steps to improve disaster management. Finally parts of the book can be used as a tool for specialized short courses for practitioners. For example a course on 'System analysis for emergency management optimization' could be based on Chapters 3, 4 and parts of Chapter 6. Included in the book is a CD with three computer programs Vensim PLE, LINPRO, and COMPRO. Vensim PLE (Personal Learning Edition) is state-of-the-art simulation software used for the implementation of system dynamics simulation. The other two programs are: LINPRO, a linear programming optimization tool; and COMPRO, for the implementation of the multi-objective analysis tool of compromise programming.
