This chapter focuses on forms of coastal flood defence and approaches in the United Kingdom (UK). The UK-government-arranged Foresight Project provides more information on future flood and coastal defences in the UK, and uses theories to assess the possible scale and nature of future risks of ...
Who should be responsible for the provision and financing of flood defences in the UK? 来自 uea.ac.uk 喜欢 0 阅读量: 30 作者:BE Deverell,P Sector 摘要: be considered Pareto inefficient since there are losers. The Kaldor-Hicks principle, relaxing efficiency criteria, on the other hand may ...
The flood of 1953 was the catalyst for the construction of the current system of River Thames tidal defences, which includes the Thames Barrier, and has provided one of the best standards of flood defence in the UK for over 20 years. Substantial growth is planned through 'Thames Gateway', ...
These include greater variations in weather patterns with more and heavier rain; changes in land use with increased development on the floodplain and the effectiveness and availability of flood defences and drainage systems. While the Government has a significant flood management programme in place to ...
FloodSim puts the player in control of flood policy in the UK for three years. Players decide how much money to spend on flood defences, where to build houses and how to keep the public informed. But as in real life, money is limited. The player must weigh up flood risks in different...
Flood-defence systems consisting of stoplogs, mobile flood-defences for specific sites, slide-gate systems and stop log closures - IBS Technics GmbH has spent the past twenty years creating an enviable reputation for itself on international markets in both the disaster-prevention and water-supply se...
CIVIL ENGINEERS at the University of Salford are calling for water companies to boost the UK's flood defences by using our extensive network of reservoirs to take up excess water during heavy rainfall. The researchers have surveyed hundreds of sites in Scotland and Greater Manchester, which are ...
The EU Flood Directive defines "flood" as the temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water. This shall include floods from rivers, mountain torrents, Mediterranean ephemeral water courses, and floods from the sea in coastal areas, and may exclude floods from sewerage systems...
designed to keep significant volumes of water at bay with minimal intervention and maintenance. Its use in the construction of basements, swimming pools and water storage tanks demonstrates concrete's performance in this regard. Concrete is also extensively used for coastal and river flood defences....
Climate change notwithstanding, many developments may alter local flood hazard, such as river regulation or construction of defences, bypass channels and reservoirs. In case of the latter, we include the erection of large reservoirs in land use, but do not consider their effects on the size of ...