Donald Watson, Michele Adams

Design for Flooding (eBook, ePUB)

Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking...and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places." --Landscape Architecture Magazine

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470890028
• Artikelnr.: 37300254

Autorenporträt

DONALD WATSON, FAIA, an architect and planner, is former chair of the Yale School of Architecture Environmental Design Program, and former professor and dean of the School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received the 2002 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award and the 2005 AARC Haecker Leadership Award for Architectural Research. His publications include Climatic Building Design, winner in the Architecture and Urban Planning category of the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. MICHELE ADAMS, P.E., a water resources engineer, is principal and founder of Meliora Environmental Design in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. Her work encompasses environ- mentally sensitive site design and sustainable water resources engineering.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. Foreword (Carol Franklin, RLA, FASLA) Foreword
(Daniel E. Williams, FAIA). Introduction. PART I: NATURE OF WATER. Chapter
1: Weather. 1.1 Sun and Earth. 1.2 The Atmosphere. 1.3 Weather. Chapter 2:
Land and Water. 2.1 Water and Carbon Cycles. 2.2 Biodiversity and the
Landscape. 2.3 Follow the Water: The Opportunity for Watershed Planning.
Chapter 3: Flooding. 3.1 Flooding from Increased Precipitation. 3.2
Flooding from Severe Storms. 3.3 Economic and Social Costs of Water-Related
Natural Disasters. PART II: DESIGN WITH WATER. Chapter 4: The Natural
Landscape. 4.1 Understanding the Natural Water Balance. 4.2 When the Water
Balance Is Altered. 4.3 Soils and Vegetation. 4.4 Subsurface Water
Movement. 4.5 Stream Systems, Wetlands, Riparian Zones, and Floodplains.
Chapter 5: The Altered Landscape. 5.1 When the Landscape Is Altered. 5.2
Altered Stream Systems and Increased Flood Damage. 5.3 Why Detention Does
Not Solve Flooding. 5.4 Summary: The Natural Landscape as a Model for
Resilient Design. Chapter 6: Design for Inland Flooding. 6.1 Resilient
Design for Inland Flooding. 6.2 Tools for Watershed Protection. 6.3
Communities and Buildings in Floodplains. PART III: FLOOD-RESISTANT DESIGN.
Chapter 7: Flood Design Analysis. 7.1 Definition of Terms. 7.2 Flood
Elevation: Base Flood and Design Flood. Chapter 8: The Coast. 8.1 Coastal
Processes. 8.2 Shoreline Protection. 8.3 Flood Barriers and Floodgates. 8.4
Summary of Coastal Protection Measures. Chapter 9: Flood Design Practices
for Buildings. 9.1 Overview of Flood Design. 9.2 Flood Design at the
Building Scale. PART IV: DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE. Chapter 10: Flood-Resistant
Design for Sites and Communities. 10.1 Coastal Communities. 10.2
Comprehensive Planning for Resilient Communities. 10.3 Local Actions to
Build Community Resilience. Chapter 11: Sea Level Rise. 11.1 Sea Level
Rise: The Issues. 11.2 Sea Level Rise: Design Responses. Chapter 12: Design
for Resilience. 12.1 The Wave of the Future. 12.2 Models for National and
International Action. 12.3 Design Resolution. Epilogue. Glossary. Index.