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Urban Flood Management
- 340 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Urban Flood Management
About this book
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 f
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Table of contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Illustration credits
- Introduction to urban flood management
- I. Setting up the framework
- 1. Setting the stage for Integrated Urban Flood Management
- 2. Urban floods
- II. Drivers for change
- 3. Urbanisation
- 4. Climate change: key uncertainties and robust findings
- III. Urban flood risk
- 5. The hydrology of cities
- 6. Urban flood-risk assessment
- IV. Responses
- 7. Responding to flood risk
- 8. Urban drainage systems
- 9. Flood proofing the urban fabric
- 10. Enhancing coping and recovery capacity
- V. Towards flood resilient cities
- 11. Managing for resiliency
- 12. Capacity building and governance
- 13. Shelter for all
- References
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Glossary
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