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Integrated Flood Risk Management

Basic Concepts and the Japanese Experience
 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
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Short description:

Global climate change has generated new rainfall extremes, with unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows. This text presents recent conceptual developments in disasters, risk, and resilience; surveys UN policies; and gives an integrated approach; with the Japanese experience of effective flood management and disaster recovery.

Long description:

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have been intensified by climate change and have generated unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows worldwide. It presents recent conceptual developments in disasters, risk and resilience, and surveys UN policies on environment and development as well as disaster management.


Sustainable and resilient development requires an integrated approach and human empowerment. Japan provides a useful example of effective flood management and disaster recovery in its current strategies for river and basin integrated flood management. Very few English-language books present up-to-date Japanese experiences for students and professionals in the context of global trends, relevant to a time of climate change and with global application.



  • Outlines an integrated approach to flood risk management in the context of UN initiatives

  • Details Japanese good practice developed through culture and the needs of a changing society

Integrated Flood Risk Management is ideal for professionals working for environmental agencies, hydrologists and engineers, as well as students of disaster management and water resources development.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Occurrence of Disaster 3. Conceptual Evolution of UN Policies on Environment, Development and Disaster Reduction 4. An Integrated Approach to Water Resources and Flood Risk 5. Japanese Experiences 6. Future Issues of IFRM. Epilogue: NINOMIYA Kinjiro Sontoku and Hotoku-shiho