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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program
2. Setting the Stage -Tulips and Tacos
3. Storm Surge Modeling in the Gulf of Mexico and Houston-Galveston Region
4. Modeling movement of water and sand (sediment transport) in coastal environments
5. Inland (pluvial) and urban flood prediction
6. Using machine learning to predict flood hazards based on previous losses
7. Compound flooding
8. Cost/benefit analysis to calculate residential and industrial impacts in TX
9. The Role of Insurance in Facilitating Economic Recovery from Floods
10. Behavioral insights into the causes of underinsurance against flood risks: Experimental evidence from the Netherlands
11. Calculating economic risk, safety standards and decision making
12. Infrastructure impacts and vulnerability to coastal flood events
13. Understanding the impacts of development patterns and the built environment on flood loss
14. Plan evaluation for flood resilient communities: The Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
15. Dreaming about Houston and Rotterdam beyond oil and ship channel
16. A new nature-based approach for flood proofing the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam
17. Green Infrastructure-based Design in Texas Coastal Communities
18. Integrated urban design in the U.S.A. and the Netherlands
19. Flood risk reduction for Galveston Bay: preliminary design of a coastal barrier
20. Design, maintain and operate movable storm surge barriers for flood risk reduction
21. Designing and implementing coastal dunes for flood risk reduction
22. Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Proactive Property Acquisition in Coastal Communities. Case of the Houston- Galveston Region
23. Wetlands as an Ecological Function for Flood Reduction
24. Designing and building Flood-proof houses
25. Risk Communication Tools: Bridging the gap between knowledge and action for flood risk reduction.
26. How to design a successful international integrative research and education program
27. The effects of place-and-problem-based research education: the student survey
28. A specific cross-disciplinary Building with Nature workshop-model to teach a multi-perspective problem approach for integrated design
29. Flood risk assessment of storage tanks in the Port of Rotterdam - a multi-faceted learning experience
30. Detailing experiences on place-based learning and research outcomes from a student perspective.
31. Conclusions and synthesis
