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Design for flooding : architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to flooding and climate change / Donald Watson and Michele Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Donald, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and climate.
- Flood damage prevention.
- City planning--Environmental aspects.
- City planning.
- Environmental management.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color
- Other Title:
- Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to flooding and climate change
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- I: Nature of water
- 1. Weather
- Sun and earth
- The atmosphere
- Weather
- 2. Land and water
- Water and carbon cycles
- Biodiversity and the landscape
- Follow the water: the opportunity for watershed planning
- 3. Flooding
- Flooding from increased precipitation
- Flooding from severe storms
- Economic and social costs of water-related natural disasters.
- II: Design with water
- 4. The natural landscape
- Understanding the natural water balance
- When the water balance is altered
- Soils and vegetation
- Subsurface water movement
- Stream systems, wetlands, Riparian Zones, and floodplains
- 5. The altered landscape
- When the landscape is altered
- Altered stream systems and increased flood damage
- Why detention does not solve flooding
- Summary: the natural landscape as a model for resilient design
- 6. Design for inland flooding
- Resilient design for inland flooding
- Tools for watershed protection
- Communities and buildings in floodplains.
- III: Flood-resistant design
- 7. Flood design analysis
- Definition of terms
- Flood elevation: base flood and design flood
- 8. The coast
- Coastal processes
- Shoreline protection
- Flood barriers and floodgates
- Summary of coastal protection measures
- 9. Flood design practices for buildings
- Overview of flood design
- Flood design at the building scale.
- IV: Design for resilience
- 10. Flood-resistant design for sties and communities
- Coastal communities
- Comprehensive planning for resilient communities
- Local actions to build community resilience
- 11. Sea level rise
- Sea level rise: the issues
- Sea level rise: design responses
- 12. Design for resilience
- The wave of the future
- Models for national and international action
- Design resolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9780470890004
- 0470890002
- Publisher Number:
- 99984024786
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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