Floodplain management a new approach for a new era / [electronic resource] :
Bob Freitag ... [et al.].
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2009.
- x, 242 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.
Floods are not the problem. Case study: Louisa County, Iowa -- A new vocabulary. Case study: Snoqualmie, Washington -- Rivers and floodplains. Case study: Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin -- Natural processes must drive solutions. Case study: New York, New York -- Our relationship to rivers. Case study: Chicago, Illinois -- Approaches: structural and nonstructural. Case study: Buck Hollow River, Oregon -- Capabilities and tools. Case study: Davenport, Iowa -- Strategies: work with, not against, rivers. Case study: flooding of I-5 in Washington -- Choosing the best strategy. case study: Tulsa, Oklahoma -- What next? case study: Rivergrove.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Floodplain management--United States. Floodplain management--United States--Case studies.