The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains.

Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on a

This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water ma