I'm just going to post the abstracts I found on "google scholar" and the sites/books I've been leafing through for my SRP. I'll extract bits of info from each source of material and place it into my Abstract and Information section (:
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Resilient Flood Risk Management Strategies by Karin. M. De Bruijn & Frans Klijn
Abstract: The traditional flood risk management strategy in the Netherlands is based on preventing floods by constructing dikes and other structures. After each flood dikes were raised, people felt safer and investments in the area increased, causing a further need to prevent flooding. Nowadays, safety in the Netherlands is legally based on the exceedence probability of the discharge: all dikes should be able to withstand water levels related to a discharge with a return time of 1250 years. However, flood risk management not only depends on the hazard but also on the vulnerability of the area. The society does not only determine this vulnerability but also the strategy followed to cope with flood risks. The social and economical values indicate which level of risk is accepted, how much can be spent to prevent floods and what other values, such as nature and cultural landscape values should be taken into account. Changed societal views in the Netherlands lead to a discussion on alternative flood management strategies. A resilient flood risk management strategy might be a more appropriate strategy nowadays. This paper defines resilience in the context of flood risk management. A resilient strategy focuses on reducing the impacts of floods by increasing the speed of recovery of the system. The system is defined as the society and ecosystems in the area threatened by river floods.
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Natural Hazards by H. Rasid - Preventing Floods or Regulating Flood Levels
Abstract Based on a systematic sample survey among the residents of two contrasting floodplain environments - the Tista floodplain (a shallow flood area) and the Ganges-Brahmaputra floodplain (a deep flood area) - this study tests a central hypothesis that the floodplain residents of Bangladesh preferred regulation of flood levels as the main flood alleviation measure. The study found that, despite significant differences in property setting, flood hazard experience and the nature of indigenous adjustments to floods between the two sample areas, an overwhelming 95% of the respondents from each area preferred regulation of flood levels within a range of 0.3 to 2.0 m. The study attempts to provide an explanation for the popularity of regulated flood levels in the context of indigenous adjustments of floodplain crops and infrastructures tonormal flood levels in Bangladesh, which coincided with the respondents' preferred range of flood levels. The study points out that the objective of the UNDP/World Bank-sponsored embankment compartmentalization projects also coincides with this goal of regulating flood levels. However, to test the physical limitations of regulating water levels between neighbouring compartments and to assess the environmental impacts of the proposed projects, the study stresses the need for initiating environmental baseline surveys on the pilot compartmentalization project, which is located on the left bank of the Brahmaputra.
My references will be from the following sources:
- Floods by John and Jennifer Barwick – Flood Damage Prevention (book)
- Floods by Michele Ingber Drohan – Building Levees
http://books.google.com.au/books - Floods by Michael Allaby – Reasons why floods occur (book)
- Natural Hazards by H. Rasid - Preventing Floods or Regulating Flood Levels
http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar - Resilient Flood Risk Management Strategies by Karin. M. De Bruijn & Frans Klijn
http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar - Flood Prevention
http://library.thinkquest.org - Density
http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/Density - Disastrous Floods and Tidal Waves by Melvin Berger - Floods (book)
