Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)

Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)

This article exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. By the 1970s, international hazard scholarship advocated regulating land use as an effective flood mitigation tool. In 1974, floods devastated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Margaret Cook
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
Brisbane River
floods
planning
urban development
flood mitigation
hazard
dam
floodplain
Queensland
Australia
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=3;spage=344;epage=354;aulast=Cook

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http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=3;spage=344;epage=354;aulast=Cook

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