Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management
for the 21st Century provides comprehensive, forward-looking operational
guidance on how to manage the risk of fl oods in a rapidly transforming urban
environment and changeable climate. The Guide serves as a primer for decision
and policy makers, technical specialists, central, regional and local government
offi cials, and concerned stakeholders in the community sector, civil society and
non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

The Guide starts with A Summary for Policy Makers which outlines and describes
the key areas which policy makers need to be knowledgeable about to create
policy directions and an integrated strategic approach for urban fl ood risk
management. The Summary concludes with 12 guiding policy principles for
integrated fl ood risk management.

The core of the Guide consists of seven chapters, organized as follows:
Chapter 1. Understanding Flood Hazard
Chapter 2. Understanding Flood Impacts
Chapter 3. Integrated Flood Risk Management: Structural Measures
Chapter 4. Integrated Flood Risk Management: Non-Structural Measures
Chapter 5. Evaluating Alternative Flood Risk Management Options: Tools for
Decision Makers
Chapter 6. Implementing Integrated Flood Risk Management
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Promoting Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management

Each chapter starts with a full contents list and a summary of the chapter
for quick reference. It is then made up of sections which combine general
narrative on key aspects of urban fl ood risk management, case study evidence
in the form of lessons from the field on the methods and techniques of
fl ood risk management, both positive and where relevant problematic, and
“How To” sections on necessary and immediate operational tasks. Each chapter
contains a full reference list. This is augmented by lists of further readings for
operational tasks.