Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: The Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0323852513 ISBN 13: 9780323852517

Verlag: Elsevier, 2022

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Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: The Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast represents the culmination of a 5-year international research and education partnership funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and more than 10 years of collaboration between Dutch and U.S. flood experts on the basic issue of how to protect society from growing flood risks. Multiple case studies integrating the fields of engineering, hydrology, landscape architecture, economics, and planning address the underlying characteristics of physical flood risks and their prediction; human communities and the associated built environment; physical, social, and built-environment variables; and mitigation techniques.

In recognition of the lack of systematic research and the growing societal need to better understand flood impacts, this edited book provides an in-depth, comparative evaluation of flood problems and solutions in two key places: the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast. Both regions are extremely flood-prone and have experienced continual adverse impacts throughout their histories. For researchers in flood management, geographers, hydrologists, environmental studies, and social science as well as policymakers and decision-makers in flood management authorities and related industries, this book provides an essential resource.

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Dr. Brody is a Director, Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas, and Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus, Galveston, Texas, USA. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He was also the Lead Technical Expert for the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas in response to Hurricane Harvey. Dr. Brody’s research focuses on coastal environmental planning, spatial analysis, flood mitigation, climate change policy, and natural hazards mitigation. He has published numerous scientific articles on flood risk and mitigation, and the book, Rising Waters: The causes and consequences of flooding in the United States. He is the PI of the NSF PIRE Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program.

Associate Research Scientist, Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas, and Lecturer, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University, Galveston Campus, Galveston, Texas, USA. She is the Education Program Director of the NSF PIRE Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Sciences from Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on urban flooding, flood risk reduction and mitigation strategies, urban resiliency, and transformative and authentic learning in education. She teaches graduate courses in sustainable coastal management and resiliency, international flood risk mitigation strategies, environmental planning and urban resiliency.

Dr. Kothuis is a Research Associate, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands and Chief Representative, Netherlands Business Support Office, Houston, Texas, USA. Her research focuses on multi-functional flood defenses, transdisciplinary knowledge integration, and stakeholder inclusive design of structures and strategies for flood resilience. She manages multidisciplinary research projects on delta design and is coordinator for the Houston Galveston Bay case for TU Delft. She is editor of the publications ‘Delft Delta Design – Houston Galveston Bay Region, Texas, USA’; ‘Sustainable and Integrated Design of Multifunctional Flood Defenses’; and ‘Delta Interventions’.

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Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: Comparisons from the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast represents the culmination of a five-year international research and education partnership funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and over ten years of collaboration between Dutch and U.S. flood experts on the basic issue of how to protect society from growing flood risks. Multiple case studies integrating the fields of engineering, hydrology, landscape architecture, economics, and planning address the following broad research questions: 1) what are the underlying characteristics of physical flood risks and how can they be predicted; 2) why are human communities and the associated built environment so vulnerable to flood impacts; 3) how do physical, social, and built-environment variables interrelate to exacerbate flood risk; and 4) which mitigation techniques, both structural and non-structural, are most effective in reducing the adverse impacts of floods?

In recognition of the lack of systematic research and the growing societal need to better understand flood impacts, this edited book provides an in-depth, comparative evaluation of flood problems and solutions in two key places: the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast. Both regions are extremely flood-prone and have experienced continual adverse impacts throughout their histories. Both places are approximately the same size with similar populations, economies, and economic growth patterns. However, each country has responded to the threat of floods in fundamentally different ways, providing an important comparison from a long-term resiliency perspective. Content focuses on the following four themes: environmental and physical models; socio-economic and political underpinnings; place-based design and the built environment; and flood-resilient solutions. Through this approach, Coastal Flood Risk Reduction provides critical knowledge and pathways to more flood resilient futures by comparing and contrasting two leading countries dealing with increasing flood risk and associated impacts. The book is a valuable resource for decision makers, researchers, experts, students, and others interested in reducing the adverse impacts of floods over the long term.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0323852513
• ISBN 13: 9780323852517
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
• Herausgeber: Brody, Lee, Kothuis
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