Open AccessFlood Damage Mitigation Since the Great Midwest Flood of 1993: Issue Introduction
Author(s) -
Davis Stuart A.,
Dunning Mark C.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of contemporary water research and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1936-704X
pISSN - 1936-7031
DOI - 10.1111/j.1936-704x.2005.mp130001001.x
Subject(s) - flood myth , floodplain , library science , citation , flood mitigation , associate editor , history , political science , operations research , sociology , computer science , engineering , geography , archaeology , cartography
It has been slightly more than ten years since the U.S. Interagency Task Force on Floodplain Management’s report, Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management into the 21st Century was published. This report, more commonly known as the “Galloway Report,” was commissioned to determine the major causes of the Great Midwestern Flood of 1993 and to make recommendations for policy and programmatic improvements to “achieve risk reduction, economic efficiency, and environmental enhancement in the floodplain and related watersheds” (Glauthier, et al. 1994). The interagency committee assembled by General Gerald Galloway (at that time the Dean of Students at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point) extensively studied the flood, its impact, and the institutional apparatuses in place for anticipating, managing, and responding to the flood. The committee presented a series of sweeping recommendations for improving the nation’s approach to floodplain management – proposing in the Committee’s words: