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Series: Urban Water Series
Pluvial flooding is defined as flooding that results from rainfall-generated overland flow, before the runoff enters any watercourse or sewer. It is usually associated with high intensity rainfall events (typically >30mm/h) but can also occur with lower intensity rainfall or melting snow...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by CRC Press
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling under the immense weight of the flood on a personal and community level, government, civic groups, and citizens began to immediately assess and address the event’s impacts. Why did the...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states – Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida – have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill. These disasters have not only been numerous but also devastating. Response to and recovery from these...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in March 2011, the public is showing increased interest in nuclear safety. This important book is based on an independent report by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, which has been translated into English and...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health
Countries in the West regularly export their environmental harms – dumping heavy metals and greenhouse gases, for instance – to countries with (often fast) developing economies. These practices may seem beneficial to both the core and the periphery, providing jobs and investment in the latter,...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected...
To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine how weather and...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
