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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859467342 ISBN 13: 9781859467343

Publisher: RIBA Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Edward Barsley is Director at The Environmental Design Studio Ltd and a specialist in environmental design in architecture, with a particular interest in developing strategies to reduce flood risk and increase resilience in the built environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859467342
• ISBN 13: 9781859467343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Barsley Edward