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Flood risk management and response
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ISBN: 1784662429 9781784662424 9781784662417 1784662410 Year: 2017 Publisher: Southampton, England ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : WIT Press,

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Saving a World Treasure : Protecting Florence from Flooding
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Firenze : Firenze University Press,

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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.


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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.


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Year: 2017 Publisher: Florence, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.


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Saving a World Treasure : Protecting Florence from Flooding
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Florence, Italy : Firenze University Press,

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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.


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The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status of flood protection for the city of Florence and identify steps to reduce the risk of flooding facing the city. In this final Report, ITSC concludes that Florence remains at risk to significant flooding and this risk grows each day. It is not a question of whether a flood of the magnitude of 1966 or greater will occur, but when. In fact, the level of protection that exists in Florence now is not on a level appropriate to the citizens and treasures that rest within the city. If, under current conditions, a 1966-like flood occurred, the consequences to human lives, treasures, properties and community infrastructure could be much more catastrophic than they were in 1966.


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Landscape survey to support flood apex national flood decision support toolbox : definitions and existing tools
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This report summarizes the literature on definitions of resilience to flood risk, conceptual system-of-systems frameworks to analyze resilience, metric and indicator systems for measuring resilience, and examples of resilience-building in action at the community level. The literature suggests three main themes associated with the concept of resilience: (1) reducing the likelihood of a disaster and a community's ability to absorb or resist a shock, (2) increasing a system's adaptability while still maintaining function in the presence of a shock, and (3) reducing the time to recovery to normal functioning that might differ from pre-event functioning. These themes translate into capacities at the community or regional level that are essential to achieving resilience: absorptive or resistive capacity, adaptive capacity, and restorative capacity. Conceptual frameworks can be categorized into two groups: systems that segment the world by public service sectors (e.g., electric, water, and transportation) and systems that segment along functional lines (e.g., social, built, or natural).


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Protecting building utility systems from flood damage : principles and practices for the design and construction of flood resistant building utility systems
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA,

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Protecting building utility systems from flood damage : principles and practices for the design and construction of flood resistant building utility systems
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA,

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Floods.
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ISBN: 9780081023846 0081023847 1785482696 9781785482694 9781785482694 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Oxford : ISTE Press Limited ; Elsevier Limited,

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This book discusses flood risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to prioritize risk reduction, disaster costs, potential flood zone development, prevention, existing policies, and mitigation tools such as: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulnerability, land use planning, the improvement of crisis management, etc. Also discusses adaptation through post-flood reconstruction and integrating disaster risk reduction measures.

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