1st Edition

Designing Water Disaster Management Policies Theory and Empirics

Edited By Chennat Gopalakrishnan Copyright 2016
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book represents a landmark effort to probe and analyze the theory and empirics of designing water disaster management policies. It consists of seven chapters that examine, in-depth and comprehensively, issues that are central to crafting effective policies for water disaster management. The authors use historical surveys, institutional analysis, econometric investigations, empirical case... Read more

1. Introduction: designing water disaster management policies: theory and empirics  Chennat Gopalakrishnan

2. Flood disaster management policy: an analysis of the United States Community Ratings System  Abdul-Akeem Sadiq and Douglas S. Noonan

3. A historical examination of the Corps of Engineers and natural valley storage protection: the economics and politics of ‘green’ flood control  Carolyn Kousky

4. Probabilistic forecasting and the reshaping of flood risk management  Sarah Michaels

5. Examining the benefits of collaboration: the Provider-User Matrix for collaborative flood risk management illustrated by the case of the Ljusnan River, Sweden  Beatrice Hedelin and Mattias Hjerpe

6. Adapting to catastrophic water scarcity in agriculture through social networking and inter-generational occupational transitioning  Ram Ranjan

7. Can social resilience inform SA/SIA for adaptive planning for climate change in vulnerable regions?  Allan Dale, Karen J. Vella, and Alison Cottrell

Biography

Chennat Gopalakrishnan is Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Hawaii. He has published seven books and approximately 115 journal articles and technical papers on current and emerging issues in natural resource economics and policy. He is a fellow of the American Water Resources Association and International Water Resources Association and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.