On Borrowed Land

On Borrowed Land

Author: Scott Faber

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Published: 1996-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558441279

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Flooding is a natural hydrologic occurrence, but flood-related damage to property and the risks to human life are exacerbated by urban growth and other intensive development in floodplains. The conventional response has been to construct ever-larger flood control systems, but flood Planning and urban form plains are not fixed and they defy simply structural solutions. This policy focus report considers ecological, economic, and legal issues of land use in floodplains through case studies of local responses to the disastrous 1993 floods in the Midwest, as well as other river basin management programs around the country.