Floodplain management
Subtitle: a new approach for a new era
By: Bob Freitag, Susan Bolton, Frank Westerlund.
Contributors: Bolton, Susan M.; Westerlund, Frank, 1945-
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597266345; 9781597266352
Subjects: Floodplain management -- United States; Floodplain management -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Floods are not the problem. Case study : Louisa County, Iowa; title: A new vocabulary. Case study : Snoqualmie, Washington; title: Rivers and floodplains. Case study : Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin; title: Natural processes must drive solutions. Case study : New York, New York; title: Our relationship to rivers. Case study : Chicago, Illinois; title: Approaches : structural and nonstructural. Case study : Buck Hollow River, Oregon; title: Capabilities and tools. Case study : Davenport, Iowa; title: Strategies : work with, not against, rivers. Case study : flooding of I-5 in Washington; title: Choosing the best strategy. case study : Tulsa, Oklahoma; title: What next? case study : Rivergrove.