Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building & Community Design

ISBN-13: 9781859467343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Edward Barsley

Opis

This book offers a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the options available for adaptation to flood risk in the built environment. It provides a road map, set methods and key principles for developing community flood resilience. It also provides insight and advice on how to build an accurate understanding of the flood risk context, be it at building, street or community scale. Offering clear, visual / spatial examples of the variety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a range of flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual for architects and professionals across the built environment. Highly practical handbook for students, architects, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research with the Cabinet Office, Environment Agency & Local Community as well as input from academic and industry experts, homeowners and residents of communities at risk of flooding

Spis treści

1. Flood Risk Context and Consequences  2. Types of Flooding  3. Tools and Techniques for Understanding Flood Risk and Resilience  4. Catchment and Community Flood Risk Management  5. Building Level Strategies  6. Pathways to a Flood Resilient Future