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Flood Risk Science And Management

by Gareth Pender , Hazel Faulkner
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781405186575
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 544
  • Original Price: USD 368.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1420 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Environmental / Water Supply

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Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully planned.

Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management; providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the international research community (from research students through to senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood management responsibility in the public sector. By using the concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.

Gareth Pender is Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of the Built Environment at Heriot Watt University. His research and consultancy interests are in fluvial flooding, particularly in the development and testing of computer models to predict flood inundation extent. For the past five years he has led the UK's Flood Risk Management Research Consortium an academic industrial partnership - to undertake research to improve flood risk management practice worldwide.

Hazel Faulkner is a Professor of Environmental Science at the Flood Hazard Research Centre. Whilst spending a considerable part of her early career exploring the role of dispersive soils in gully initiation in semi-arid contexts, she has recently focused on the challenges of translating scientific formulations of flood risk, and communicating both risk and uncertainty effectively. She sits on the Management Committee of the UK's Flood Risk Management Research Consortium with responsibilities for integrated activities.

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