The Hydraulics of Floods and Flood Control
Author: J. E. A. Stanbury
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780947711085
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Flood Control and Drainage Engineering, 3rd Edition
Author: S. N. Ghosh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-08-10
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781138372511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrimarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for advanced students of civil engineering, this third edition is thoroughly revised. It accommodates recent developments in remote sensing, information technology and GIS technology. New additional material deals with problems of flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization and flood hazard zoning, and engineering measures for flood control. Drainage improvement is tackled, with particular regard to salinity and coastal aquifer management from the ingress of sea water. The book includes design problem-solving and case studies, making it practical and applications-oriented. The subject matter will be of considerable interest to civil engineers, agricultural engineers, architects and town planners, as well as other government and non-government organizations
Achievements and Challenges of Integrated River Basin Management
Author: Dejan Komatina
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-07-25
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1789234824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntegrated river basin management is an approach focusing on the development and management of land and water resources in a coordinated manner with the primary aim to ensure society development, which is well balanced from the environmental, economic, and social points of view. It is a complex approach, including all aspects of water resource management (water and aquatic ecosystem protection, disaster management, and water use) and covering a wide range of disciplines (e.g., hydrology, ecology, environmental management, and economy), cross-cutting issues (climate change, data sharing, and stakeholder involvement), and approaches (river basin management plans preparation, water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus assessment, science-policy integration, and transboundary cooperation). This book provides a comprehensive overview of achievements and challenges associated with the implementation of the approach throughout the world.
Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands
Author: Paul F. Hudson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-11-25
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0521768608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
Hydraulic and Hydrologic Aspects of Flood-plain Planning
Author: Sulo W. Wiitala
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloods and Flood Control
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloods and Flood Control is one of a series of special technical reports covering important phases of the work of TVA's Office of Engineering. The principle concern of the report is the technical engineering aspects of floods and flood control of the Tennessee River Basin and the effect of this control downstream on the lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management
Author: Jiri Marsalek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-07-05
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1402049021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese edited proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop detail the ongoing search for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management. Such flood management is difficult enough in river basins controlled by a single authority, and becomes even more challenging when dealing with transboundary floods, which may originate in one country or jurisdiction and propagate downstream to another country, or jurisdiction.
Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land
Author: Thomas Hartmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 3030238423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such measures require more – and mostly privately owned – land and more diverse stakeholder involvement than traditional (grey) engineering approaches. They also present challenges related to different disciplines. Nature-based solutions for flood risk management not only require technical expertise, but also call for interdisciplinary insights from land-use planning, economics, property rights, sociology, landscape planning, ecology, hydrology, agriculture and other disciplines to address the challenges of implementing them. Ultimately, nature-based flood risk management is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. Featuring numerous case studies of nature-based flood risk management accompanied by commentaries, this book presents brief academic reflections from two different disciplinary perspectives that critically highlight which specific aspects are of significance, and as such, underscore the multi-disciplinary nature of the challenges faced.
Floods and Flood Management
Author: A. Saul
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9789401047111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life. These natural disasters highlight the need to further understand the occurrence phenomena, to improve forecasting techniques, and to develop procedures and contingency plans to minimise the flood impact. This volume contains contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Floods and Flood Management held in Florence in November 1992. The volume is timely and provides an important overview for engineers, scientists, managers and researchers of the latest developments in technology, analysis and management.
Hydraulics of Levee Overtopping
Author: Lin Li
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-09-20
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1000195236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarthen levees are extensively used to protect the population and infrastructure from periodic floods and high water due to storm surges. The causes of failure of levees include overtopping, surface erosion, internal erosion, and slope instability. Overtopping may occur during periods of flooding due to insufficient freeboard. The most problematic situation involves the levee being overtopped by both surge and waves when the surge level exceeds the levee crest elevation with accompanying wave overtopping. Overtopping of levees produces fast-flowing, turbulent water velocities on the landward-side slope that can potentially damage the protective grass covering and expose the underlying soil to erosion. If overtopping continues long enough, the erosion may eventually result in loss of levee crest elevation and possibly breaching of the protective structure. Hence, protecting levees from erosion by surge overflow and wave overtopping is necessary to assure a viable and safe levee system. This book presents a cutting-edge approach to understanding overtopping hydraulics under negative free board of earthen levees, and to the study of levee reinforcing methods. Combining soil erosion test, full-scale laboratory overtopping hydraulics test, and numerical modeling for the turbulent overtopping hydraulics. It provides an analysis that integrates the mechanical and hydraulic processes governing levee overtopping occurrences and engineering approaches to reinforce overtopped levees. Topics covered: surge overflow, wave overtopping and their combination, full-scale hydraulic tests, erosion tests, overtopping hydraulics, overtopping discharge, and turbulent analysis. This is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers working on levee design, water resource engineering, hydraulic engineering, and coastal engineering, and for professionals in the field of civil and environmental engineering, and natural hazard analysis.
