Documents

Exploration of Tolerable Risk Guidelines for the USACE Levee Safety Program
The proceedings of the March 17-18, 2010 workshop is available for download.
Exploration of Tolerable Risk Guidelines for the USACE Levee Safety Program (pdf, 6.3 MB)

Flood Risk Management Approaches (As Being Practiced in Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States)
This document, the result of that collaboration, reflects contributions from agencies within the four participating nations but is not an official position of any government or international organization. It is organized around a conceptual framework developed to encompass flood risk drivers, risk assessment, and the source-path-receptor concept; the flood risk management cycle with its overarching policies and supporting players and mechanisms; and the adaptive management cycle of maintenance, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment over time.
Flood Risk Management Approaches as Being Practiced in Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States (pdf, 6.7 MB)

June 2009 Flood Risk Management Newsletter
Focuses particularly on flood risk management on the international scene: http://operations.usace.army.mil/newsletter.cfm?CoP=Flood&Step=Issue

Large-scale Floods Report (September 2011, ISSN 0386-5878)
This book, prepared by the International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO together with the International Flood Initiative (IFI), presents 11 reports from around the world analyzing lessons and policy implications abstracted from large-scale events. The book includes chapters from Canada (1997 Red River flood), Germany (2002 Central European flood); the United States (2005 Hurricane Katrina), Myanmar (2008 cyclone), Bangladesh (2007-2009 cyclones), Taiwan (2009 Typhoon Morakot flood), Phillippines (2009 flash flood in Manila), and China (2000-2010.)