Floods, Volume 2: Risk Management (Civil Engineering and Geomechanics)

Freddy Vinet

ISBN 10: 1785482696 / ISBN 13: 9781785482694

Published by ISTE Press - Elsevier, 2017

About this Item

Hardcover, xxvi + 397 pages, NOT ex-library. A tiny crease in the lower outer corner of first pages, else interior is fine: crisp, clean and bright, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show tearing to tips of corners, short creases, small handling marks. Stickers on the back. Issued without a dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Floods, Volume 2: Risk Management (Civil Engineering and Geomechanics)
• Publisher: ISTE Press - Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785482696
• ISBN 13: 9781785482694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The management of flood risk seems to be facing a daunting paradox. Despite increasingly effective risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to place risk reduction at the top of the agenda, the cost of disasters continues to increase. It is also increasingly difficult to avoid the urbanization or development of potential flood zones. The fundamental issue involves determining the conditions necessary for efficient prevention by focusing on adaptability to risk, which implies coping with the risk of flooding rather than directly fighting against it or simply ignoring it.

This second volume of the Floods series of books explores existing policies and tools which mitigate the impact of flooding: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulnerability, land use planning, the improvement of crisis management, etc. The closing chapters focus on the question of adaptation through post-flood reconstruction, integrating disaster risk reduction measures, e.g. through resilient urbanism.

• Presents the state-of-the-art surrounding flood issues, from the description of the phenomena, to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability and management of crisis)
• Written by specialists, but accessible to mainstream scientists
• Exposes knowledge, methodologies, scientific locks and the prospects of each discipline on the theme of floods

About the Author

Freddy Vinet is Professor of Geography at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France and co-director of the Gestion des catastrophes et des risques naturels Masters course. His research focuses on the vulnerability of populations faced with flooding and the evaluation of prevention measures.