Floods. / edited by Freddy Vinet.
| Other author | Vinet, Freddy. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, UK : ISTE Press ; Kidlington, Oxford, UK : Elsevier, 2017. |
| Description | 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Earth and Planetary Sciences 2017 [EBCEPS17] |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Risk management |
| Variant title | Floods 2 |
| Series | Floods |
| Contents | Part 1. Strategic and technical aspects of flood prevention. 1. Flood management in France from 18th to 20th centuries: a state issue? / Denis Cœur-- 2. The French flood risk management model: local territories facing state omnipresency / Bruno Ledoux -- 3. Management and safety of flood defense systems / Remy Tourment, Bruno Beullac, Daniel Poulain -- 4. Coping strategies in dike protected areas / Damien Serre, Johnny Douvinet, Charlotte Heinzlef, Eric Daniel-Lacombe -- 5. Floods and land rights: from risk prevention plans to administrative accountability and penal liability / Helga Scarwell -- 6. How cost-effective is reducing the vulnerability of housing in response to flood risk? / Nicolas Bauduceau, Julien Jadot -- |
| Contents | Part 2. Territories and individuals at the heart of prevention. 7. Does the watershed represent a key area within flood risk knowledge and management? / Régis Thepot -- 8. Sustainable land use planning in areas exposed to flooding: some international experiences / Anna Ribas Palom, David Sauri Pujol, Jorge Olcina Cantos -- 9. Societal choices in flood risk management, from Individual responsibility to national policy / Robert Slomp, Wout de Vries -- 10. "Sustainable flood memories": developing concept, process and practice in flood risk management / Lindsey McEwen, Andrew Holmes -- 11. Integrating anthropocentric approaches into flood risk management / Beatrice Gisclard, Clément La Verdet, Karine Weiss -- |
| Contents | Part 3. Anticipating and managing flood events. 12. Characteristics of flood events / Freddy Vinet -- 13. Effectiveness of institutional alert tools in flood forecasting in France / Johnny Douvinet, Bruno Janet -- 14. From public involvement to citizen-based initiatives: how can inhabitants get organized to face floods? / Beatrice Gisclard, Johnny Douvinet, Gilles Martin, Arnaud Demontis --15. Crowdsourcing and crisis-mapping in the event of floods: tools and challenges / Johnny Douvinet, Jules Kouadio, Emmanuel Bonnet, Jérôme Gensel -- 16. Flood crisis management: the operational perspective / Luc Corack, Sébastien Deschamps, Freddy Vinet -- 17. Local crisis management: the communal safety plan: challenges and obstacles to operationality / Eric Platyszek, Pierre-Alain Ayral, Mathilde Gralepois -- 18. Anticipating or coping: behaviors in the face of flash floods / Isabelle Ruin, Celine Lutoff, Saif Shabou -- |
| Contents | Part 4. Post-disaster recovery and adaptation. 19. Disaster memories and population resilience / Serge Tisseron, Fabien Agneray, Léna Poulain -- 20. Economic resilience, total loss control and risk transfer / Roland Nussbaum with contributions by Reimund Schwarze, Swenja Surminski -- 21. Economic assessment of flood prevention project / Katrin Erdlenbruch, Frédéric Grelot -- 22. Flood debris management / Charlotte Nithart -- 23. Post-flood recovery: an opportunity for disaster risk reduction? / Annabelle Moatty -- 24. Towards an urban design adapted to flood risk? / Sylvain Rode, Mathilde Gralepois. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780081023846 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016302613 |
| ISBN | 9781785482694 (print) |
| ISBN | (print) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |