Ken Conca is a professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, and is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Recent books include the Grawemeyer Award-winning An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

• ForewordList of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSources for chapter epigraphs Chapter One: A Flood of QuestionsChapter Two: Life in the Floodplain: Risk, Recovery, RecurrenceChapter Three: Before the Flood: Uncertainty and Controversy in Managing Flood RiskChapter Four: The First FloodChapter Five: After the First Flood: Master-planning a WatershedChapter Six: The Second FloodChapter Seven: After the Second Flood: Tear It Down or Safe and Sound?Chapter Eight: Development and its DiscontentsChapter Nine: The Master PlanChapter Ten: Before the Next Flood: Lessons from Ellicott CityChapter Eleven: New Lives for Old Towns: Preparing for the Difficult Conversation

Ken Conca is a professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, and is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Recent books include the Grawemeyer Award-winning An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

• ForewordList of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSources for chapter epigraphs Chapter One: A Flood of QuestionsChapter Two: Life in the Floodplain: Risk, Recovery, RecurrenceChapter Three: Before the Flood: Uncertainty and Controversy in Managing Flood RiskChapter Four: The First FloodChapter Five: After the First Flood: Master-planning a WatershedChapter Six: The Second FloodChapter Seven: After the Second Flood: Tear It Down or Safe and Sound?Chapter Eight: Development and its DiscontentsChapter Nine: The Master PlanChapter Ten: Before the Next Flood: Lessons from Ellicott CityChapter Eleven: New Lives for Old Towns: Preparing for the Difficult Conversation

Ken Conca is a professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, and is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Recent books include the Grawemeyer Award-winning An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

• ForewordList of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsSources for chapter epigraphs Chapter One: A Flood of QuestionsChapter Two: Life in the Floodplain: Risk, Recovery, RecurrenceChapter Three: Before the Flood: Uncertainty and Controversy in Managing Flood RiskChapter Four: The First FloodChapter Five: After the First Flood: Master-planning a WatershedChapter Six: The Second FloodChapter Seven: After the Second Flood: Tear It Down or Safe and Sound?Chapter Eight: Development and its DiscontentsChapter Nine: The Master PlanChapter Ten: Before the Next Flood: Lessons from Ellicott CityChapter Eleven: New Lives for Old Towns: Preparing for the Difficult Conversation