Creating Flood Resilience across Urban Landscapes (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Flexible and adaptive strategies for reducing flood risk while enriching our city environments

Urban flooding is an escalating global challenge, intensified by global warming, rapid urbanisation, and complex socio-economic change. Addressing this risk requires more than traditional engineering solutions; it demands an integrated, systems-level approach that brings together spatial planning, infrastructure design, policy, governance, and community engagement.

Creating Flood Resilience Across Urban Landscapes provides a comprehensive and practical guide to modern urban flood risk management. Drawing on international research and real-world experience, the book explores how resilient building standards, integrated water management, and a balanced combination of grey infrastructure and blue-green solutions can reduce both the probability and impacts of flooding. Written by leading practitioners and academics, it offers a single, authoritative reference for professionals working across diverse geographical and institutional contexts.

Key topics include:

• Regional variations in flood mechanisms, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience capacity, illustrated through case studies from Europe, Africa, North America, and South East Asia
• Increasing flood risk driven by inter-related climatic, environmental, and socio-economic change
• The combined effectiveness of Nature-Based Solutions and hard engineering interventions in urban flood mitigation
• Flexible and adaptive approaches that allow flood management systems to remain effective under deep uncertainty and changing future conditions
• Advances in flood monitoring and modelling using artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies to enhance forecasting, optimisation and real time decision support
• Monitoring requirements, and maintenance strategies essential for long-term urban flood resilience
• Community engagement approaches that strengthen preparedness, response, and post-flood recovery

Written for engineers, planners, developers, regulators, and policy-makers, this book sets out a practical, system-wide agenda for shifting from infrastructure-focused flood management to integrated resilience strategies. Ultimately, Creating Flood Resilience Across Urban Landscapes positions flood risk management as a catalyst for creating greener, fairer, and more resilient cities.