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By Samuel D. Brody,Wesley E. Highfield,Jung Eun Kang

within the wake of typhoon Katrina and the flooding of recent Orleans in 2005, this interdisciplinary ebook brings jointly 5 years of empirical study funded via the nationwide technological know-how origin. It explores the motives of flooding within the usa and the ways that neighborhood groups can lessen the linked human casualties and estate harm. Focussing on Texas and Florida, the authors examine components except rainfall that be certain the measure of flooding, and examine the most important position of non-structural strategies and techniques in flood mitigation. The authors current an empirical and multi-scale overview that underlines the serious significance of neighborhood making plans and improvement judgements. Written for complex scholars and researchers in probability mitigation, hydrology, geography, environmental making plans and public coverage, this e-book also will offer coverage makers, govt staff and engineers with very important insights into the best way to make their groups extra resilient to the opposed affects of flooding.

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