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Flood damage prevention --- House construction --- Design and construction.
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This study examines flood risk prevention of the Seine in the Ile-de-France region. It highlights the impacts a major flood, like the one in 1910, could have on the well-being of citizens, city management and the economy.
Flood damage --- Flood damage prevention --- Risk assessment --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- Damage, Flood --- City planning --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- France
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Les villes européennes, souvent installées le long de fleuves ou sur des rivages maritimes, s'inquiètent de leur vulnérabilité aux inondations, un risque accru aujourd'hui par les dérèglements climatiques, la pression démographique et la compétitivité urbaine. La mise en valeur récréative et environnementale de ces rives par des projets urbains, en cherchant à mieux articuler la ville avec la présence de l'eau, entraîne des débats sur l'acceptabilité de ces aménagements potentiellement inondables. Entre prise en compte du risque et attractivité, de nouvelles stratégies innovantes voient le jour qui, tout en renforçant les techniques de prévention traditionnelles, proposent des dispositifs urbains et des modes de vie mieux adaptés à la présence de l'eau sur le territoire. Les exemples étudiés dans cet ouvrage, que ce soit à Rotterdam ou Dordrecht aux Pays-Bas, Hambourg ou Mayence en Allemagne, Dunkerque, Lyon, Marseille ou Toulouse en France, tout comme le regard de certains experts sur des cas plus lointains, témoignent de cette ambivalence. Ils montrent une forte capacité d'innovation de la part de ces villes pour gérer les ressources liées à l'eau, optimiser des stratégies fonctionnelles et temporelles d'aménagement du territoire, imaginer des dispositifs architecturaux et techniques résistants à l'eau, et mettre en valeur ces nouveaux paysages.
Flood control --- City planning --- Inondations --- Urbanisme --- Maîtrise --- Villes --- Effets des inondations --- Dommages --- Prévention --- Maîtrise --- Flood damage prevention --- Actes de congrès --- Dommages causés par les inondations --- Prévention. --- Flood damage prevention - Europe - Congresses --- Villes - Effets des inondations - Europe - Actes de congrès --- Inondations - Dommages - Prévention - Europe - Actes de congrès --- Résilience urbaine --- Inondation --- Rotterdam --- Dordrecht --- Dunkerque --- Hambourg --- Mayence --- Lyon --- Nimes --- Marseille --- Toulouse --- Dommages causés par les inondations --- Prévention. --- Ville portuaire
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Prepared by the Task Committee on Flood Safety Policies and Practices of ASCE In 2005, the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina graphically revealed the vulnerability of U.S. communities to the loss of life and property resulting from flooding. In the aftermath, the American Society of Civil Engineers issued a call for action to address growing flood losses and threats to public safety. Then, in 2012, Hurricane Sandy found the nation still unprepared and unaware of the magnitude of flood risk. ASCE charged a task committee with investigating the extent to which the lessons learned from the failure of the hurricane protection system during Hurricane Katrina have been incorporated into the planning, design, construction, and management of engineered water resources projects. The investigation would provide a basis for influencing changes in national policy and engineering practice related to flood safety. The committee met with government agencies, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and those affected by Katrina and subsequent disasters. The committee concluded that the federal government, in close collaboration with state, tribal, and local governments, concerned public and private organizations, and the public at large, must develop and use forward-thinking flood risk management processes. Doing so would reduce the nation.s vulnerability to dangers and damages resulting from floods while concurrently protecting natural resources, enhancing the functions of floodplains, and supporting wise and sustainable economic development of appropriate coast and river areas. A must-read for key decision-makers and any member of the public living on or near water, this report highlights the difference between doing what we.ve been doing.reactively recover from catastrophic events.and doing what we must do.proactively minimize the life-changing impacts of floods and hurricanes.
Flood damage prevention. --- Floodplain management. --- Risk assessment. --- Floods --- Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones --- Risk management --- Public health and safety --- Safety --- Water resources --- Organizations --- Professional societies --- Floods --- Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones --- Risk management --- Public health and safety --- Safety --- Water resources --- Organizations --- Professional societies
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This book, Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components, provides a collection of recent contributions in the field of drying and wetting in porous building materials. The main benefit of the book is that it discusses some of the most important topics related to the drying and wetting processes, namely, innovations and trends in drying science and technology, drying mechanism and theory, equipment, advanced modelling, complex simulation and experimentation. At the same time, these topics will be going to the encounter of a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. The book is divided in several chapters that intend to be a resume of the current state of knowledge for benefit of professional colleagues.
Dampness in buildings. --- Humidity --- Buildings --- Control. --- Protection. --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Control of humidity --- Dehumidification --- Humidification --- Humidity control --- Air conditioning --- Dampness in buildings --- Buildings, Dampness in --- Condensation control in buildings --- Moisture control in buildings --- Exterior walls --- Ventilation --- Waterproofing --- Damage prevention --- Protection --- Engineering. --- Materials. --- Building construction. --- Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer. --- Structural Materials. --- Building Materials. --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Materials --- Thermodynamics. --- Heat engineering. --- Heat transfer. --- Mass transfer. --- Structural materials. --- Building materials. --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Mass transport (Physics) --- Thermodynamics --- Transport theory --- Heat transfer --- Thermal transfer --- Transmission of heat --- Energy transfer --- Heat --- Mechanical engineering --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory
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Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new initiatives to foster upgrading of existing building and enhancement of land planning strategies. “Safe Home” scheme is aimed at increasing urban safety requirements against hazards under an advanced labeling approach. It provides a quantitative evaluation of building performance through an objective, reproducible approach, assessing risks at a land, urban and building scale. Aim of this rating system is to result in useful information to different users, like land planning decision makers, owners, purchasers, tenants or property and real estate managers.
Buildings --- Protection. --- Natural disaster effects. --- Building failures --- Natural disasters --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Damage prevention --- Geology. --- Sustainable development. --- Architecture. --- System safety. --- Geographical information systems. --- Natural Hazards. --- Sustainable Development. --- Urbanism. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Geography --- Prevention --- Design and construction --- Environmental aspects --- Natural disasters. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Architectural engineering --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Construction industry --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Government policy --- Management --- Engineering. --- Structural engineering. --- Engineering, Structural --- Structures, Engineering of --- Engineering --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Architecture, Primitive
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"American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called 'natural disasters' continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive?but horribly misleading?to call such catastrophes 'natural'" -- From Amazon.com.
Flood control --- Floods --- Hydraulic engineering --- Floodplain management --- Flood damage prevention --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- City planning --- Hazard mitigation --- Flood plain management --- Management of flood plains --- Management of floodplains --- Floodplains --- Watershed management --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Natural disasters --- Water --- Flood prevention --- Prevention of floods --- Rivers --- Forest influences --- History. --- Government policy --- Prevention --- Regulation --- United States. --- COE --- Corps of Engineers (U.S.) --- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers --- U.S. Army Engineers --- U.S.E.D. --- US Army Corps of Engineers --- USACE --- USED --- U.S. Army Engineer Department --- Überschwemmungsgefahr --- Umweltpolitik --- Wasserbau --- Überschwemmung --- Hochwasserschutz --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Floods. --- Flood control. --- Government policy. --- USA --- Corps of Engineers --- Chief of Engineers --- Heer --- Mississippi-Gebiet --- Mississippi River Valley. --- Mississippi River. --- Mississippi-Gebiet. --- Mississippi Valley --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Hochwasser --- Überschwemmungen --- Unwetter --- Transgression --- Überflutung --- Hydrotechnik --- Wasserbauwerk --- Bauwesen --- Unterwasserbau --- Umweltschutz --- Umweltschutzpolitik --- Politische Ökologie --- Überschwemmung --- Hochwassergefahr --- Naturgefahr --- Schutz --- Politik --- Mississippi --- United States --- AB --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattn --- Saharat ʻAmērik --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerick --- Spojené staty americk --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheirice --- SUA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígí --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- Überschwemmungen --- Überflutung --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattnė
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