Integrated Flood Management: Concept Paper

This book conceptualizes Integrated Flood Management (IFM) as a subset of IWRM and describes the interplay between floods and the development process. It takes look at traditional flood management options from the IFM angle and identifies the major challenges encountered by flood plain managers and decision makers before describing teh basic tenets and requirements of IFM. The concept paper is to be followed by a series of supplementary papers going into further detail about different aspects of IFM to help flood managers and decision makers implement the concept. This series of papers requires familiarity with flood management issues and the concept of IWRM.

Contents:

Summary

1. Introduction

2. Floods and the Development Process

3. Traditional Flood Management Options

4. The Challenges of Flood Management

5. Integrated Flood Management – The Concept

6. Putting Integrated Flood Management into Practice

7. End-note

Further Reading
 

Post Date : 12 Agustus 2009