Floodplain management : a new approach for a new era / Bob Freitag ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freitag, Bob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floodplain management--United States.

Floodplain management.

Floodplain management--United States--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2009.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Floods are not the problem. Case study: Louisa County, Iowa

A new vocabulary. Case study: Snoqualmie, Washington

Rivers and floodplains. Case study: Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin

Natural processes must drive solutions. Case study: New York, New York

Our relationship to rivers. Case study: Chicago, Illinois

Approaches: structural and nonstructural. Case study: Buck Hollow River, Oregon

Capabilities and tools. Case study: Davenport, Iowa

Strategies: work with, not against, rivers. Case study: flooding of I-5 in Washington

Choosing the best strategy. case study: Tulsa, Oklahoma

What next? case study: Rivergrove.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.

ISBN:

1-61091-132-6

OCLC:

923187864