River Ecology and Flood Hazard Mitigation

Birkland, Thomas A.; Burby, Raymond J.; Conrad, David R.; Cortner, Hanna J.; Michener, William K.

doi:10.1061/(asce)1527-6988(2003)4:1(46)

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“…The history of flood mitigation in the U.S. has been dominated by structural techniques, beginning with the Mississippi River flood in 1927 (Birkland et al 2003). Succeeding this event, the federal government's Flood Control Act of 1930 supported national programs of structural flood control works.…”

Section: Structural Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nowhere was this more apparent than in New Orleans, Louisiana shortly after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, where large areas of the city were destroyed because of the failure and breaches of the levees and flood walls protecting the city due to poor maintenance and design failure. Second, structures like channels or levees can raise the level of the river, increasing the flood pulse downstream and the velocity of the water by constricting the waterway and the natural floodplain, thus shortening flooding time and resulting in greater downstream flooding (Birkland et al 2003). Third, structural solutions can bring a false sense of security to the public (Dalton and Burby 1994;White 1936).…”

Section: Structural Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Identifying factors influencing flood mitigation at the local level in Texas and Florida: the role of organizational capacity

2009

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In the United States, mitigating the adverse impacts of flooding has increasingly become the responsibility of local decision makers. Despite the importance of understanding why flood mitigation techniques are implemented at the local level, few empirical studies have been conducted over the last decade. Our study addresses this lack of research by examining the factors influencing local communities to adopt both structural and non-structural flood mitigation strategies. We use statistical models to predict multiple flood mitigation techniques implemented by cities and counties based on a survey of floodplain administrators and planning officials across Texas and Florida. Particular attention is paid to the role of organizational capacity to address floods in addition to various local geophysical and socioeconomic characteristics. Results indicate that organizational capacity is a significant factor contributing to the implementation of both structural and non-structural flood mitigation techniques, even when controlling for contextual characteristics.

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Section: Structural Approachesmentioning

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Section: Structural Approachesmentioning

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Identifying factors influencing flood mitigation at the local level in Texas and Florida: the role of organizational capacity

2009

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“…The heightened resolve of Katrina and Rita evacuees to return home, even a year after the storm, is un-desirable among some policy makers and disaster managers who would rather citizens live in places less susceptible to catastrophic events (Birkland et al 2003;Public Broadcasting Service 2012;Glaeser 2005). As observers constitute the majority of voters and taxpayers, it is important to be able to evaluate their beliefs and intentions regarding hypothetical threats, and based on secondhand information.…”

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Imagining worse than reality: comparing beliefs and intentions between disaster evacuees and survey respondents

Reinhardt

2015

Journal of Risk Research

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“…According to general relationships between runoff and the state of streams and floodplains (e.g., Hooijer et al 2004;Janauer 2000;Birkland et al 2003;De Roo et al 2001;Piegay 1997;Sparks et al 1998;Tockner and Stanford 2002) and findings from analyses of the consequences of extreme floods in central Europe in 1997(Hladný et al 2005Langhammer and Vilímek 2008;Křížek and Engel 2003;Kašpárek et al 2007), four major types of critical stream and floodplain modifications were identified that are important for flood risk reduction: Because of anthropogenic interventions, many floodplains offer limited retention and transformation potential to their watercourses. Protective flood dikes are the most common example of this; these prevent water from spilling into the floodplain at higher water levels.…”

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Applicability of hydromorphological monitoring data to locate flood risk reduction measures: Blanice River basin, Czech Republic

Langhammer

2008

Environ Monit Assess

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This paper presents a new methodological approach, using hydromorphological monitoring data from river networks, to identify stream elements that may negatively influence the course of floods, as well as elements suitable for modifications that will reinforce the natural retention potential of the floodplain. The approach uses data derived from hydromorphological monitoring that conforms to the EN 14614 standard "Water quality--Guidance standard for assessing the hydromorphological features of rivers." Four major aspects of stream modifications that can potentially affect the course and consequences of floods, and that can be derived from hydromorphological monitoring, were identified. These are: (1) modifications that increase the speed of runoff, (2) modifications that restrict the retention potential of the floodplain, (3) potential obstacles to the flood course, and (4) improper alterations of stream route modifications. A GIS is used to identify and locate these critical aspects of stream and floodplain modification. This method was applied in the Blanice River basin, an area in central Europe hit by a severe flood in August 2002. The critical modifications identified were compared with geomorphological mapping to display the different effects of individual types of modifications.

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River Ecology and Flood Hazard Mitigation

Cited by 108 publications

References 17 publications

Identifying factors influencing flood mitigation at the local level in Texas and Florida: the role of organizational capacity

Identifying factors influencing flood mitigation at the local level in Texas and Florida: the role of organizational capacity

Imagining worse than reality: comparing beliefs and intentions between disaster evacuees and survey respondents

Applicability of hydromorphological monitoring data to locate flood risk reduction measures: Blanice River basin, Czech Republic

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