Beschreibung:
This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It provides a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion and sea defence benefits.
1. Introduction: the Purpose and Contents of this Manual 2. Using Appraisals to Make Better Choices 3. Flood Risk Management Benefits: Theory and Practice 4. Flood Damage to Residential Properties and Related Social Impacts 5. Flood Damage to Non-Residential Properties 6. Other Flood Losses: Utility Services, Schools, Hospitals, Transportation Networks and Emergency Costs 7. Coastal Erosion Risk Management: Potential Losses and Benefits 8. Recreational Gains and Losses 9. Appraisal of Flood Risk Management for Agriculture 10. Environmental Gains and Losses in Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management References