Future Flooding and Coastal Erosion Risks

by Thorne, Colin R.; Evans, Edward P.; Penning-Rowsell, Edmund C.

• ISBN13: 9780727734495
• ISBN10: 0727734490
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-10
• Publisher: Inst of Civil Engineers Pub

Table of Contents

Overview	p. 3
Introduction to the foresight 'future flooding' methodology	p. 13
Environmental impacts of future flood risk	p. 29
Climate change	p. 49
Catchment land-use	p. 64
River processes	p. 82
Human behaviour	p. 100
Socio-economic drivers, cities and science	p. 116
Coastal processes	p. 132
Urban change	p. 149
Other flood risks and their drivers	p. 173
Driver impact scoring, ranking and uncertainty	p. 185
Quantitative assessment of driver impacts on future flood risk in England and Wales	p. 209
Driver impacts in Scotland	p. 227
Driver impacts in Northern Ireland	p. 244
Drivers of coastal erosion	p. 267
Assessment of future coastal erosion risk	p. 280
Managing the rural landscape	p. 297
Responses to future intra-urban flood risks	p. 320
Flood event management	p. 340
Reducing flood losses	p. 360
River engineering responses	p. 375
The management of coastal flooding and erosion	p. 392
Response scoring, ranking, uncertainty and sustainability	p. 414
Quantitative assessment of future flood risk management portfolios in England and Wales	p. 433
Sustainability of flood risk management responses	p. 461
The governance of responses	p. 475
Strategic choices	p. 491
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