Flood risk : the holistic perspective : from integrated to interactive planning for flood resilience / / Zoran Vojinovic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815346803321
• Autore: Vojinović Zoran
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] : , : IWA Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78040-533-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: Urban Hydroinformatics Series
• Disciplina: 363.34936
• Soggetti: Flood damage prevention; Flood control
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Michael B. Abbott""; ""Foreword by Kuniyoshi Takeuchi""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1: Floods in urban areas""; ""1.1 Setting the Scene""; ""1.2 On Values and Qualities""; ""1.3 Paving the Way Forward: Shifting the Focus""; ""1.4 Differentiating between Different Types of Floods and Their Impacts""; ""1.5 The Need for Adaptation Calls for Holistic Approaches""; ""1.6 Towards a New Economic Paradigm: Economics, Ethics and Wellbeing""; ""Chapter 2: Holistic thinking""; ""2.1 The Rise of Holistic Thinking""; ""2.2 From the Parts to the Whole""""2.3 Tracing the Roots of Urban Flood Risk from Four Levels of the Whole""; ""2.4 Mathematics of Complexity and Interactions""; ""Chapter 3: Moving beyond traditional practices""; ""3.1 Towards Holistic Planning for Flood Resilience""; ""3.2 Synergy with Ecosystem Services""; ""3.3 Good Governance for Holistic Planning""; ""3.4 The ABC Framework for Implementation of Holistic Approaches""; ""Chapter 4: A. Holistic risk assessment""; ""4.1 The Purpose of the Holistic Flood Risk Assessment""; ""4.2 Data Gathering""; ""4.3 Root Causes""; ""4.4 Diagnostics""; ""4.4.1 Assessment of hazards""""4.4.2 Assessment of vulnerabilities""; ""4.4.3 Assessment of impacts""; ""4.4.4 Quantitative assessment of risk""; ""4.4.5 Qualitative assessment of risk""; ""4.4.6 Combining quantitative and qualitative data and methods into holistic ; frameworks""; ""4.5 Uncertainty in Flood Risk Assessment""; ""4.6 Recognition - Raising Risk Awareness""; ""4.6.1 Methods for raising hazard/risk awareness""; ""Chapter 5: B. Holistic scenario analysis""; ""5.1 The Purpose of the Holistic Scenario Analysis""; ""5.2 Identification of Drivers and Actors""; ""5.2.1 Climate change impacts on rainfall characteristics""""5.2.2 Population growth""; ""5.2.3 Land use change and economic growth""; ""5.2.4 Urban actors""; ""5.3 Assessment and Evaluation of Scenarios""; ""5.3.1 Climate change scenarios""; ""5.3.2 Socio-economic scenarios""; ""5.3.3 Evaluation of scenarios""; ""5.4 Supporting Tools for Holistic Scenario Analysis""; ""5.4.1 Climate modelling""; ""5.4.2 Modelling land-use change""; ""5.4.3 Modelling behaviour of actors""; ""5.5 Development of a Knowledgebase of Measures""; ""5.5.1 Pluvial flood protection""; ""5.5.2 Fluvial flood protection""""5.5.3 Groundwater flood protection""; ""5.5.4 Coastal flood protection""; ""5.5.5 Flash flood protection""; ""5.5.6 Stakeholder capacity building""; ""5.5.7 Land use planning""; ""5.5.8 Flood preparedness""; ""5.5.9 Contingency planning""; ""5.5.10 Financial preparedness""; ""5.5.11 Amenities of flood resilience measures""; ""Chapter 6: C. Holistic decision-making""; ""6.1 The Purpose of the Holistic Decision-Making""; ""6.2 Development of Indicators""; ""6.3 Combining Different Measures for Flood Resilience""; ""6.4 Evaluation and Selection of Measures""; ""6.5 Development of Plans and Implementation of Projects""