Floodplain Management: A New Approach for a New Era

Floodplain Management presents a compelling case for rethinking how we live with rivers in an era of rising flood risk. With flood damage in the U.S. now exceeding six billion dollars annually—and climate change expected to worsen the threat—this book offers practical, science-based strategies to reduce risk while working with, rather than against, natural river systems.

The authors argue that the most effective time to manage a flood is before it happens. Instead of relying solely on leve...