Coastal flood risk reduction : the Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas coast /
Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: The Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast represents the culmination of a 5-year international research and education partnership funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and more than 10 years of collaboration between Dutch and U.S. flood experts on the...
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Kidlington, Oxford, England ; Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: The Netherlands and the U.S. Upper Texas Coast
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program
- Chapter 2: Mixing tulips with tacos: Flood prevention practices and policies-A comparison of north Texas coastal communit ...
- Introduction
- Dutch and American approaches to flood risk reduction
- History and evolution of Dutch and US flood policy
- Brief review of present flood defenses on the Dutch central coast and the upper Texas coast
- Using Dutch principles to protect the Galveston Bay region
- Proposed Texas plan
- Future collaboration between Dutch and Texas researchers
- References
- Further reading
- Section I: Predicting the floods: Environmental/physical underpinnings
- Chapter 3: Storm surge modeling in the Gulf of Mexico and Houston-Galveston regions
- Likelihood of extreme water levels
- Storm surge generation in the northwestern Gulf
- State of engineering practice-Modeling hurricane storm surge
- Different applications of storm surge models
- Relevance of JSU (2018) research to flood risk
- Comparison with the Netherlands situation
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4: Modeling the movement of water and sediment in coastal environments
- Introduction
- Combining coastal hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and morphodynamics
- Physical modeling
- Numerical modeling
- Utilizing sediment (transport) to mitigate flooding
- Sand engine
- Mud motor
- Submerged nearshore feeder bar
- Bedload collector
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5: Urban flood modeling: Perspectives, challenges, and opportunities
- Introduction
- Pluvial flooding as a critical area of research
- Modeling flood hazards in urban areas
- 1D models
- 2D models
- Coupled models
- 3D models
- Alternative approaches
- Modeling the risks associated with urban flooding
- Key research priorities
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 6: Using machine learning to predict flood hazards based on historic damage
- The need for alternative flood hazard models and visualizations
- Machine learning as an alternative flood hazard model
- Establishing a machine learning workflow for flood hazard estimation
- Case study: Southeast Texas
- Interpretation of flood hazard model outputs
- Flood hazard concept measurement
- Overview of machine learning models for flood hazard estimation
- Model calibration
- Interpreting the modeling results
- A potential application for the Netherlands
- Summary and conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7: Compound flooding
- Introduction
- Modeling coastal flood hazards using numerical and statistical approaches
- Numerical modeling
- Statistical modeling
- Managing coastal flood hazards
- Rotterdam
- Noorderzijlvest
- West Side of Galveston Bay
- Galveston Island
- Conclusions
- References