Flood Plain Land Use Management: An Analysis of Context, Programs and Impacts (Requirements for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Flood Plain Land Use Management)

摘要

A basic premise of this study was that the investigation of flood plain use management requires a local perspective since this is the level at which most management activities take place. For this reason, individual governments involved in flood plain land use management were chosen as the unit of analysis. The following objectives were established: (1) To identify the important local characteristics which shape flood plain land use management programs and their impacts; (2) to identify the flood plain land use management methods which are most effective in producing desirable impacts; and (3) to suggest which methods are best suited to particular local circumstances.