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.


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Floodplain management--United States.
Floodplain management--United States--Case studies.


Electronic books.

TC423 / .F635 2009

627/.4