A Review of Flood Control Policy in Bihar (India)

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna M. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
Control Policy

Flood Disaster in Japan

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuya Inoue ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Flood Disasters ◽  
Development Accounting ◽  
New Type ◽  
Area Development

Progress against flood disasters since the end of Word War II has shown that although human casualties have sharply decreased, material damage has not, despite improvements in flood control facilities. This is partly due to the increased concentration of buildings, infrastructures, and other assets in urban areas. Both natural and social factors are listed, and the implementation of suitable flood control policies is indispensable to saving lives and mitigating disasters in the future. Urban flood disasters are focused as a new type disaster explained in detail, stressing a combination of structural and non-structural measures and wide-area development accounting for both rivers and their entire basins to distribute the load in terms of flood control policy.

Flood Control Policy

Science News ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Brent Blackwelder
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
Control Policy

Flood Control Policy in China: The Policy Consequences of Natural Disasters

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester Ross
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Before And After ◽  
National Leaders

ABSTRACTThis study of flood control policy before and after the Chinese floods of 1980–2 reveals the interactive effects of bureaucratic politics, the goals and careers of national leaders, and natural disasters in a communist regime. Policy is shown to be more reactive and influenced by longstanding bureaucratic rivalries than most previous research has found.

The Risky Business of Flood Control

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Kneeland
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Susquehanna River ◽  
Luzerne County ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Public Risk ◽  
Floodplain Development

This chapter discusses flood control policy, recounting how Frank Townend—who had been the civil defense director for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, for over a decade when Hurricane Agnes struck—ignored the warnings coming from the National Weather Service. He was sure that the dikes could hold back the Susquehanna River. Convinced that the levees would protect the city, he did not order an evacuation of Wilkes-Barre before flooding began. In the hours before the Agnes-induced flooding, officials reassured the public that they would stay safe and dry behind their protective flood walls, but they soon found themselves and their property in peril. The tragedy is that while residents of the cities were unaware they were at risk, for many years scholars had been warning that structural barriers to flooding were not flood proof and instead encouraged risky behavior in river valleys. The floodwalls lulled people into believing they could safely build residences and businesses on the river's natural floodplain. Disaster scholars use the term “moral hazard” to describe government policy that increases public risk taking. Dikes and levees along the Susquehanna became a moral hazard because once they had been installed, local officials encouraged floodplain development to maximize land use and increase local tax revenues.

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