Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

Ciudades e Inundaciones: guía para la gestión integrada del riesgo de inundaciones en ciudades en el Siglo 21

Robin Bloch, Abhas K. Jha and Jessica Lamond

No 2241 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The guide serves as a primer for decision and policy makers, technical specialists, central, regional and local government officials, and concerned stakeholders in the community sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. The Guide embodies the state-of-the art on integrated urban flood risk management. The Guide starts with a summary for policy makers which outlines and describes the key areas which policy makers need to be knowledgeable about to create policy directions and an integrated strategic approach for urban flood risk management. The core of the Guide consists of seven chapters, organized as: understanding flood hazard; understanding flood impacts; integrated flood risk management (structural measures and non-structural measures); evaluating alternative flood risk management options: tools for decision makers; implementing integrated flood risk management; and conclusion. Each chapter starts with a full contents list and a summary of the chapter for quick reference.

Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8866-2
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