Book Review: Flood Risk and Social Justice: From Quantitative to Qualitative Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Abstract

Flood Risk and Social Justice provides an overview of flood risk mitigation practices, covering issues that range from the social and ethical, to the scientific and practical. Ch. 1. Urban areas and flooding -- Ch. 2. Tracing the roots of urban flood risk -- Ch. 3. The nature of risk -- Ch. 4. The technocratic way of thinking -- Ch. 5. Historical perspectives of social justice -- Ch. 6. Characterisations of social justice -- Ch. 7. Realising social justice in the context of flood risk mitigation -- Ch. 8. Leadership and social justice -- Ch. 9. On sociotechnology -- Ch. 10. Data -- information -- knowledge -- understanding -- wisdom -- Ch. 11. The role hydroinformatics in active stakeholder participation -- Ch. 12. Floods and drainage systems -- Ch. 13. Quantifying urban processes -- Ch. 14. Data collection for modelling -- Ch. 15. Rainfall data analysis and catchment delineation -- Ch. 16. Modelling wet weather and dry weather flows -- Ch. 17. Hydraulic modelling -- Ch. 18. Numerical solutions of equations -- Ch. 19. Modelling practice -- Ch. 20. Flood risk assessment -- Ch. 21. Flood mitigation measures -- Ch. 22. Production of plans -- Ch. 23. Case studies.