Zevenbergen / Cashman / Evelpidou Urban Flood Management

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4398-9433-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than half the deaths caused by natural catastrophes. As flood events appear to be rapidly increasing world-wide, an advanced and universal approach to urban flooding and how to manage will help reduce flood impact.
This textbook integrates expertise from disciplines such as hydrology, sociology, architecture, urban design, construction and water resources engineering. The subject is approached from an international perspective and case studies, exercises, expert advice and literature recommendations are included to support the theory and illustrations.
Developed by a team of specialists, this volume is intended for urban flood management education of hydrology, geography, civil and environmental engineering, and management students at university level. Moreover, professionals will find this book useful as a reference. More information on flood resilience and urban flood management can be found at www.floodresiliencegroup.org
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Zevenbergen, Chris

Cashman, Adrian

Evelpidou, Niki

Pasche, Erik

Garvin, Stephen

Ashley, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I SETTING UP THE FRAMEWORK

1 Setting the stage for Integrated Urban Flood Management
1.1 Why are cities special cases?
1.2 The city as a living organism
1.3 Vulnerability of urban areas: a rough guide
1.4 Dealing with uncertainty
1.5 Adoption of a system approach

2 Urban floods
2.1 The influence of climate and other factors
2.2 Types of flooding
2.3 Pitfalls in using the historical record
II DRIVERS FOR CHANGE
3 Urbanisation
3.1 Principles of land-use planning
3.2 Urban typologies: from central square to edge city
3.3 Growing and shrinking: density issues induced by globalisation
3.4 Megacities in the delta
4 Climate change: key uncertainties and robust findings
4.1 A review of the past
4.2 Signs of change
4.3 Expected consequences

III URBAN FLOOD RISK

5 Hydrology of cities
5.1 The hydrological cycle
5.2 Land use and runoff
5.3 Modelling surface runoff
5.4 Modelling pluvial flooding
5.5 Modelling coastal flooding

6 Urban flood-risk assessment
6.1 Introduction to the theory of risk
6.2 Quantifying flood probability
6.3 Tangible and intangible damages
6.4 Loss of life estimation in flood-risk assessment
6.5 Cross-scale factors and indirect damages
6.6 Flood-risk mapping

IV RESPONSES

7 Responding to flood risk
7.1 Responses
7.2 Performance standards and expectations
7.3 Resilience, vulnerability, robustness and sustainability
7.4 Precautionary and adaptive responses
7.5 Confronting flood management with land-use planning: lessons learnt
7.6 Building types, infrastructure and public open spaces

8 Urban drainage systems
8.1 A historical perspective
8.2 Major and minor flows
8.3 SUDS/LIDS
8.4 Practices in water sensitive urban design

9 Flood proofing the urban fabric
9.1 Managing flooding through site design: basic principles
9.2 Managing flooding through detailed design (individual
properties/buildings)
9.3 Flood resilient repair and retrofitting
9.4 Urban flood defences and barriers

10 Enhancing coping and recovery capacity
10.1 Flood forecasting warning and response
10.2 Emergency planning, management and evacuation
10.3 Compensation and flood insurance

V TOWARDS FLOOD RESILIENT CITIES
11 Managing for resiliency
11.1 Asset management, some basic principles
11.2 Assessing resilience in flood-risk management
11.3 Transitioning from entrapment to resilience approaches

12 Capacity building and governance
12.1 Risk perception, acceptance and communication
12.2 Adaptive capacity
12.3 Characteristics of effective learning initiatives

13 Shelter for all
13.1 What does the future hold?
13.2 Turning ideas into action
13.3 Success stories: seizing windows of opportunity

References; Glossary; Abbreviations; Subject Index