Flood Control
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Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices
Committee on Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program Improving Policies and PracticesCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration (FIMA) manages the National Flood Insurance Progra...
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Improving Flood Prediction Assimilating Uncertain Crowdsourced Data into Hydrologic and Hydraulic Models
Maurizio MazzoleniCurrent price €174.59Original price €193.99On a global scale, sewage represents the main point-source of water pollution and is also the predominant source of nitrogen contamination in urban...
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Public Spaces for Water: A Design Notebook
Maria Matos SilvaCurrent price €117.79Original price €123.99This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...
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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape archi...
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Flood Control and Drainage Engineering, 3rd edition
S.N. GhoshCurrent price €56.99Original price €59.99Primarily written as course material on flood control and drainage engineering for advanced students of civil engineering, this third edition is th...
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Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta
Christopher SilverCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...
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Eine Einführung in die Hochwasserschutztechnik: An Introduction to Flood Control Engineering
J Paul GuyerCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99Current price €33.24Original price €34.99Save 5% -
Aire: The River and its Double
Corinne Van CauwenbergheCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99South of Geneva, Switzerland, the River Aire runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. From the late 19th century, the wat...
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Technische Massnahmen Um Den Rückstau Des Hochwassers Für Wasserkraftanlagen Unschädlich Zu Machen
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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape archi...
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation: Adapting to Flood Risk
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €126.34Original price €132.99This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and ...
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Flood Prevention and Remediation
WIT PressCurrent price €99.74Original price €104.99Human settlements have grown near watercourses since ancient times. Water supply, irrigation, navigation, wastewater conveyance and city defense ar...
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Water Supply and Distribution Systems
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €103.54Original price €108.99Water Supply and Distribution Systems, Second edition is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of how water is delivered to homes and businesse...
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Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and Remediation of Dense and Debris Flows: v. 3
WIT PressCurrent price €154.84Original price €162.99Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are among the most destructive of all water related disasters. They affect both rural and urban areas in a wide...
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Building Resilience for Flood Disaster in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia: Risk Perception from Human Geography
Apolonia Diana Sherly da CostaCurrent price €154.84Original price €162.99This book provides a new and different perspective on human geography as an umbrella understanding of the social science of disaster management, bu...
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Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice
Board on Earth Sciences and ResourcesCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social ...
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Blue-Green Cities: Integrating urban flood risk management with green infrastructure
Colin ThorneCurrent price €64.96Original price €72.99In Blue-Green Cities, Colin Thorne and the team of authors, demonstrate how urban flood risk management based on Blue-Green approaches and infrastr...
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Flood Risk: Planning, design and management of flood defence infrastructure
Paul Sayers€129.99This uniquely comprehensive guide for engineers and scientists demonstrates the feasibility of an integrated approach that combines resilient infra...
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Cutoff Plan: How a Bold Engineering Plan Broke with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Policy & Saved the Mississippi Valley
Damon MandersCurrent price €244.14Original price €256.99This is a story about the triumph of engineering in finding a solution to manage flooding on the greatest American river. For a century, men had tr...
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Floods and Reservoir Safety
DEFRA€56.99This fourth edition of Floods and Reservoir Safety provides authoritative guidance on flood protection standards, flood magnitude and freeboard -gu...
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Flood Risk and Community Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Lindsey Jo McEwenCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage th...
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Design of Protection Dams Against Torrent Floods
Guillaume PitonCurrent price €70.29Original price €73.99Design of Protection Works Against Torrent Floods explores the main features of the three leading types of protection workstorrent checkdams, sedim...
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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
Richard CampanellaCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to the world's toughest drainage problem, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recoun...
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Barrier to the Bays Volume 35: The Islands of the Coastal Bend and Their Pass
Mary Jo O'RearCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Mary Jo ORear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barr...
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Rivers Remember: Lessons and stories from #Chennai Rains
Krupa GeCurrent price €18.59Original price €19.99Current price €18.59Original price €19.99Save 7% -
The Great Cave Rescue: The extraordinary story of the Thai boy football team trapped in a cave for 18 days
James MassolaCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99First came the awful news that 12 boys and their football coach were missing. Then came the flickering video of the boys found by a pair of British...
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Strategic Management of Flood Risk
Duncan McLuckie€99.99Strategic Management of Flood Risk offers a proven approach for flood risk management in communities internationally. This supports the practical c...
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Flood Money: The Guide to Moving Your Property from the Flood Line
Brad HubbardCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Current price €15.75Original price €17.50Save 10% -
Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building & Community Design
RIBA PublishingCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Flood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built ...
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Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response: v. 2
WIT PressCurrent price €173.90Original price €186.99One-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the associated victims are flood related. A burgeoning global ...
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Federal Flood Policy: Balancing Challenges & Lessons
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €146.00Original price €156.99Floods remain a significant hazard in the United States. Developing and investing in flood-prone areas represents a trade-off between the location'...
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Flood Risk & Flood Management
Tommy S. W. WongCurrent price €202.34Original price €212.99Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century. This book covers two...
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So, You Live Behind a Levee!
American Society of Civil EngineersCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50Ask yourself this: Are my home and loved ones safe from floods? Most people know that levees are structures built near rivers and lakes to reduce t...
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Flood Early Warning Systems: Knowledge and Tools for Their Critical Assessment
D. MolinariCurrent price €104.15Original price €111.99The research this book is grounded on started with the ambitious intent to understand why FEWSs may fail. However, from the beginning, the objectiv...
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