Human Adjustment to Floods: A Geographical Approach to the Flood Problem in the United States

White, G. F. (1945). Human Adjustment to Floods: A Geographical Approach to the Flood Problem in the United States: A Geographical Approach to the Flood Problem in the United States.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

1945

Link

https://www.aag.org/memorial/gilbert-white/

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environmental_climate

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Primes

• Exposure Creep
  • The hazard is a major river flood with, say, a 100-year mean inter-arrival time and severe impact in the floodplain — the impact zone.

    This sourceFoundational identification of the levee/flood-control paradox — that overreliance on structural protective works induces floodplain development and thereby raises aggregate flood damages ("flood losses are largely an act of man").

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