After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City
Author:   Ken Conca (Professor of Environment, Development, and Health, Professor of Environment, Development, and Health, American University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 November 2024
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After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City


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Author:   Ken Conca (Professor of Environment, Development, and Health, Professor of Environment, Development, and Health, American University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780197788066


ISBN 10:   0197788068
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 November 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword List of figures and tables List of abbreviations Sources for chapter epigraphs Chapter One: A Flood of Questions Chapter Two: Life in the Floodplain: Risk, Recovery, Recurrence Chapter Three: Before the Flood: Uncertainty and Controversy in Managing Flood Risk Chapter Four: The First Flood Chapter Five: After the First Flood: Master-planning a Watershed Chapter Six: The Second Flood Chapter Seven: After the Second Flood: Tear It Down or Safe and Sound? Chapter Eight: Development and its Discontents Chapter Nine: The Master Plan Chapter Ten: Before the Next Flood: Lessons from Ellicott City Chapter Eleven: New Lives for Old Towns: Preparing for the Difficult Conversation

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Ken Conca is a professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, and is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Recent books include the Grawemeyer Award-winning An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

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