innovative approaches from big floodplain rivers and urban streams /
First Statement of Responsibility
Anna Serra-Llobet, G. Mathias Kondolf, Kathleen Schaefer, Scott Nicholson, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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[2018]
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1 online resource
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Biographies; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Part I: Big River Basins; Chapter 2: Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the USA: The Mississippi River; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 The Mississippi River Basin; 2.1.2 Flood Risk Management in the Mississippi: History and Governance; 2.2 The 2011 Mississippi River Flood: What Worked; 2.3 Land-Use Conflicts in Floodways of the Mississippi River System; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 The Birds Point: New Madrid Floodway; 2.3.3 The Atchafalaya Floodway System
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2.3.4 Risk Perception and Implications for Floodway Operation2.3.5 Conclusion; 2.4 Mississippi River Navigation System: A Major Contributor to Flooding; 2.4.1 Introduction; 2.4.2 The Upper Mississippi River Navigation System; 2.4.3 River Training Structures in the Middle Mississippi River; 2.4.4 Scientific Consensus Regarding Effects of River Training Structures and the Agency Response; 2.4.5 Conclusion and Recommendations; 2.5 Floodplains: Meeting the Needs of People and Nature; References; Chapter 3: Managing Floods in Large River Basins in the USA: The Sacramento River; 3.1 Introduction
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3.1.1 The Sacramento River Basin3.1.2 The Sacramento Valley: A Highly Engineered System; 3.1.3 Flood Risk Management in California: Governance System; 3.2 Managing Floods in the California Central Valley; 3.2.1 State Plan of Flood Control; 3.2.2 Standard Levee Design; 3.2.3 Heightened Protection for Urban Areas; 3.2.4 National Flood Insurance Program; 3.2.5 The Flood of 1986; 3.2.6 The Flood of 1997; 3.2.7 2003 Paterno Decision; 3.3 The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; 3.3.1 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; 3.3.2 Handbook for Local Communities; 3.3.3 Building Code
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3.3.4 Flood Risk Notification3.3.5 Central Valley Floodplain Evaluation and Delineation; 3.3.6 Levee Evaluations; 3.3.7 Conclusion; 3.4 Adapting Flood Insurance for Agricultural Areas; 3.4.1 NFIP Policy and Agricultural Areas in the Central Valley; 3.4.2 Need for NFIP Policy Adjustments in Agricultural Areas; 3.4.3 Agricultural Zone Designation; 3.4.4 Rural Community Rating System; 3.4.5 Federal Credit Exchange; 3.4.6 Recommendations of the Agricultural Floodplain Ordinance Task Force; 3.5 Ecological and Social Benefits of Flood Bypasses in the Sacramento Valley
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3.5.1 Expanded Flood Bypasses and Multi-benefit Flood Management3.5.2 Multi-benefit Flood Management Projects; 3.5.3 Conclusion and Challenges; References; Chapter 4: Managing Floods in Large River Basins in Europe: The Rhine River; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 The Rhine River Basin and Its Significance; 4.1.2 Physical Geography of the Rhine; 4.1.3 Floods, Water Quality, and River Basin Management; 4.2 Restoring Flood Capacity and Ecological Function Along the Upper Rhine; 4.2.1 The Upper Rhine Before Significant Human Alterations
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The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability. Rather than rely only on engineering structures to reduce flood magnitude or extent, recent policies emphasize avoiding construction in flood-prone areas (or moving people from floodplains), reducing impacts on exposed populations through early warning systems, and insurance to aid in recovery. Implementing this new approach faces many challenges but also offers opportunities for synergies, as described in this book for a range of large floodplain rivers and smaller urban streams across North America and Europe. This book is unique in presenting the voices of those on the front lines of implementing a new paradigm in flood risk management, each river with a unique set of challenges and opportunities derived from its specific geography as well as differences in governance between the American and European contexts.