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Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
List of contents
Part I. Setting the Stage: Context and Overview of the Issue: 1. The Vulnerability of Fluvial Lowlands to Management and Environmental Change; 2. Fluvial Framework: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Processes of Large Floodplains and Deltas; 3. Human Impacts to Lowland Rivers and Deltas; Part II. Unintended Consequences: The Legacy of Impacts Caused by Traditional Flood Control to Large Rivers and Deltas: 4. The Evolution of Flood Control Systems in Response to Extreme Events: Contrast and Comparison of the Lower Mississippi and Lower Rhine; 5. The Sequence of Channel Engineering and Fluvial Geomorphic Adjustment; 6. Embanked Floodplains: The Impact of Flood Control on Lowland River Valleys; 7. Managing Flood Basins in a Challenging Environment; Part III. Solutions and the Way Forward in an Era of Global Environmental Change: 8. Integrated Flood Management; 9. Into the Future with a View of the Past; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Index.
About the author
Paul F. Hudson is Associate Professor of environmental physical geography at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he relocated after serving for twelve years on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. His main scholarly interests involve the study of environmental change of large coastal plain rivers through the lens of physical geography, and in particular, geomorphology and hydrology. Hudson's research investigates flooding, soil erosion, river adjustment, sediment transport, and the management of floodplain environments. He has provided expert advice concerning environmental water resources across a range of governmental scales: community, state, and national, including the Dutch parliament.
Summary
This book examines the interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change. It is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.
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'Hudson provides a sweeping treatise on the human impacts to large fluvial lowlands, covering cases from the Rhine to the Mississippi. Given the increasing effects of development and environmental change on these hydrologic systems, there could not be a better time or author to thoroughly examine this topic. Hudson's accessible writing style and attention to both problems and management solutions is a key resource for both students and practitioners.' Sam Brody, Texas A&M University
