Books by Bob Freitag

  • Floodplain Management
    Floodplain Management Bob Freitag

    Jazz on the river

    Floodplain Management

    A New Approach for a New Era

    Bob Freitag

    A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National ...

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About the Author

Robert Freitag is Executive Director of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup and Director of the Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning & Research at the University of Washington. He has recently developed a higher education course in floodplain management for FEMA, based on the principles articulated in his book Floodplain Management, published by Island Press in 2009.