Retrofitting for Flood Resilience : A Guide to Building & Community Design

Flood risk is increasing across the UK andglobally.This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and theways in which the built and natural environment can be adapted to the threat offlooding.It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of floodrisk, highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developingcommunity and property flood resilience.Offering clear visual examples of thevariety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a rangeof flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual forarchitects and professionals across the built environment. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionalsRichly illustrated with practical examples and case studiesDraws on research from government, academic and industry experts as well as first-hand experiences from flood affected communities