Flood Risk Science and Management
1. Edition December 2010
544 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage
from flooding have changed significantly in recent years.
Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence
to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes
flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also
requires that society learns to live with floods and that
stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies
to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur.
This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems
from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend
conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically,
environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk
management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on
integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of
flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as
increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many
areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic
development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences
of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully
planned.
Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and
comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management;
providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range
of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the
international research community (from research students through to
senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as
engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood
management responsibility in the public sector. By using the
concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to
the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.
Contributors.
Foreword.
Acronyms/Glossary of terms.
Part 1 Introduction.
1 Setting the scene for flood risk management (Jim W. Hall
and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell).
Part 2 Land Use and Flooding.
2 Strategic Overview of Land Use Management in the Context of
Catchment Flood Risk Management Planning (Enda O'Connell,
John Ewen, Greg O'Donnell).
3 Multi-scale Impacts of Land Management on Flooding (Howard
Wheater, Neil McIntyre, Bethanna Jackson, Miles Marshall, Caroline
Ballard, Nataliya Bulygina, Brian Reynolds, Zoe Frogbrook).
4 Managed Realignment: A Costal Flood Management Strategy
(Ian Townend, Colin Scott, Mark Dixon).
5 Accounting for Sediment in Flood Risk Management (Colin
Thorne, Nick Wallerstein, Philip Soar, Andrew Brookes, Duncan
Wishart, David Biedenharn, Stanford Gibson, Charles Little, Jr.,
David Mooney, Chester C. Watson, Tom Coulthard, Marco Van De
Wiel).
6 A Measured Step Towards Performance-based Visual Inspection of
Flood Defence Assets (G Long & M J Mawdesley).
Part 3 Flood Forecasting and Warning.
7 Advances in the Remote Sensing of Precipitation Using Weather
Radar (Ian D. Cluckie).
8 Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Real-Time Flood
Forecasting (Jonathan Lawry, Daniel R. McCulloch, Nicholas J.
Randon, Ian D. Cluckie).
9 Real-Time Updating in Flood Forecasting and Warning (Peter
C. Young).
10 Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models for Real-time
Flood Forecasting (Geoff Austin, Barney Austin, Luke
Sutherland-Stacey, Paul Shucksmith).
Part 4 Flood Modelling and Mitigation.
11 Data Utilization in Flood Inundation Modelling (David C.
Mason, Guy J-P Schumann and Paul D. Bates).
12 Flood Inundation Modelling to Support Flood Risk Management
(Gareth Pender and Sylvain Néelz).
13 Integrated Urban Flood Modelling (Adrian J. Saul, Slobodan
Djordjevic, Cedo Maksimovic and John Blanksby).
Part 5 Systems Modelling and Uncertainty Handling.
14 Distributed Models and Uncertainty in Flood Risk Management
(Keith Beven).
15 Towards the Next Generation of Risk-based Asset Management
Tools (Paul B. Sayers, Mike J. Wallis, Jonathan D. Simm, Greg
Baxter and Tony Andryszewski).
16 Handling Uncertainty in Coastal Modelling (Dominic E.
Reeve, Jose Horrillo-Caraballo and Asrian
Pedrozo-Acuña).
Part 6 Policy and Planning.
17 The Practise of Power: Governance and Flood Risk Management
(Colin Green).
18 Stakeholder Engagement in Flood Risk Management (Colin
Green and Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell).
19 Flood Risk Communication (Hazel Faulkner, Simon McCarthy
and Sylvia Tunstall).
20 Socio-Psychological Dimensions of Flood Risk Management
(Sue Tapsell).
21 Assessment of Infection Risks Due to Urban Flooding (Lorna
Fewtrell, Keren Smith and David Kay).
Part 7 Case Studies.
22 Modelling Concepts and Strategies to Support Integrated Flood
Risk Management in Large, Lowland Basins: Río Salado Basin,
Argentina (Rodo Aradas, Colin R. Thorne and Nigel
Wright).
23 Flood Modelling in the Thames Estuary (Jon Wicks, Luke
Lovell and Owen Tarrant).
24 A Strategic View of Land Management Planning in Bangladesh
(Ainun Nishat, Bushra Nishat and Malik Fida Abdullah
Khan).
25 Goals, Institutions, and Governance: The US Experience
(Gerald E. Galloway).
Index.
the School of the Built Environment at Heriot Watt University. His
research and consultancy interests are in fluvial flooding,
particularly in the development and testing of computer models to
predict flood inundation extent. For the past five years he
has led the UK's Flood Risk Management Research Consortium an
academic industrial partnership - to undertake research to improve
flood risk management practice worldwide.
Hazel Faulkner is a Professor of Environmental Science at
the Flood Hazard Research Centre. Whilst spending a considerable
part of her early career exploring the role of dispersive soils in
gully initiation in semi-arid contexts, she has recently focused on
the challenges of translating scientific formulations of flood
risk, and communicating both risk and uncertainty effectively.
She sits on the Management Committee of the UK's Flood
Risk Management Research Consortium with responsibilities for
integrated activities.