Floodplain management a new approach for a new era /
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.