Planning to Reduce Flood Damages
Author | : North Dakota. State Engineer |
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : North Dakota. State Engineer |
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000-10-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309132894 |
Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, and geotechnical and structural engineering. Dams, levees, and other river-training works must be sized to local conditions; geotechnical theories and applications help ensure that structures will safely withstand potential hydraulic and seismic forces; and economic considerations must be balanced to ensure that reductions in flood damages are proportionate with project costs and associated impacts on social, economic, and environmental values. A new National Research Council report, Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, reviews the Corps of Engineers' risk-based techniques in its flood damage reduction studies and makes recommendations for improving these techniques. Areas in which the Corps has made good progress are noted, and several steps that could improve the Corps' risk-based techniques in engineering and economics applications for flood damage reduction are identified. The report also includes recommendations for improving the federal levee certification program, for broadening the scope of flood damage reduction planning, and for improving communication of risk-based concepts.
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Floodplains |
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Author | : D. Lee Boggs |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Floodplain management |
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Author | : California. Department of Water Resources |
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Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Flood damage prevention |
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Author | : Tennessee Valley Authority |
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Flood damage prevention |
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Author | : Jung Eun Kang |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Planning researchers believe that property losses from natural hazards, such as floods can be reduced if governments address this issue and adopt appropriate policies in their plans. However, little empirical research has examined the relationship between plan quality and actual property loss from floods. My research addresses this critical gap in the planning and hazard research literature by evaluating the effectiveness of current plans and policies in mitigating property damage from floods. Specifically, this study: 1) assesses the extent to which local comprehensive plans integrate flood mitigation policies in Florida; and 2) it examines the impact of the quality of flood mitigation policies on actual insured flood damages. Study results show that fifty-three local plans in the sample received a mean score for total flood mitigation policy quality of 38.55, which represents 35.69% of the total possible points. These findings indicate that there is still considerable room for improvement by local governments on flooding issues. The scores of local plans varied widely, with coastal communities receiving significantly higher scores than non-coastal communities. While most communities adopted land use management tools, such as permitted land use and wetland permits as primary flood mitigation tools, incentive based tools/taxing tools and acquisition tools were rarely adopted. This study also finds that plan quality associated with flood mitigation policy had little discernible effect on reducing insured flood damage while controlling for biophysical, built environment and socio-economic variables. This result counters the assumption inherent in previous plan quality research that better plans mitigate the adverse effects associated with floods and other natural hazards. There are some possible explanations for this result in terms of plan implementation, land use management paradox and characteristics of insurance policies. The statistical analysis also suggests that insured flood loss is considerably affected by wetland alteration and a community's location on the coast. Another finding indicates that very strong leadership and dam construction are factors in mitigating flood loss.
Author | : United States. Mississippi River Commission |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Flood control |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1987 |
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