Flood Risk Management: Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities
- ISBN-10
- 1351009990
- ISBN-13
- 9781351009997
- Series
- Flood Risk Management
- Category
- Technology & Engineering
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-02-14
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Matilda Becker
Description
Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and communication, forecasting and warning, and economics. Through short case studies, the range of international examples from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa provide analysis of FRM efforts, processes and issues from human, governance and policy implementation perspectives. Written by an international set of authors, this collection of chapters and case studies will allow the reader to see how floods and flood risk management is experienced in different regions of the world. The way in which institutions manage flood risk is discussed, introducing the notions of realities and social constructions when it comes to risk management. The book will be of great interest to students and professionals of flood, coastal, river and natural hazard management, as well as risk analysis and insurance, demonstrating multiple academic frameworks of analysis and their utility and drawbacks when applied to real-life FRM contexts.
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- 2019-01-22
- 239 pages
- Paperback
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- 2007-09-17
- 319 pages
- Ebook
- Springer Science & Business Media
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