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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Flood risk management"”.
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Challenges of Transformative Adaptation: Insights from Flood Risk Management
… of successfully responding to climate change risks. Discussions surrounding adaptation have, until recently, placed emphasis on incremental change as a means of dealing with climate risks. However, increased attention is now being paid to transformative adaptation given the current scale of …
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Improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management studies
… for improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management (FRM) studies. The most common types of FRM infrastructure in the United States (U.S.) are dams and levees. The FRM infrastructure in the U.S. is aging with a large number of dams and levees now more than 50 years old and in …
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Development of a modelling framework for integrated catchment flood risk management
Flooding is one of the most significant issues facing the UK and Europe. New approaches are being sought to mitigate its impacts, and distributed, catchment-based techniques are becoming increasingly popular. These employ a range of measures, often working with the catchment’s natural processes, in …
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The Environmental Justice Implications of the Planning Policy and Practice of Flood Risk Management in New Zealand
Following an international trend, the flood defence approach historically applied in New Zealand has been superseded by a shift to flood risk management, an approach that aligns with the notion of ‘living with risk’ and devolves responsibility to risk-takers at the local level. Citizens are …
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Power, responsibility and justice : practices of local stakeholder participation in flood risk management in England and Germany
… active involvement of local stakeholders in the management of floods in Europe. Such involvement is seen as necessary as the management of floods becomes more complex. Management approaches now seek to include a range of potential measures to reduce risk in addition to structural defence measures …
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Joining the dots: a framework for assessing integration in flood risk management with applications to England and Serbia
… manage trade-offs and maximise synergies across management practices. Integrated approaches have the potential to enable better outcomes for Flood Risk Management (FRM) and society as a whole. However, achieving integration in practice is a recurring challenge, especially for FRM where multiple …
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Application of open-access and 3rd party geospatial technology for integrated flood risk management in data sparse regions of developing countries
Floods are one of the most devastating disasters known to man, caused by both natural and anthropogenic factors. The trend of flood events is continuously rising, increasing the exposure of the vulnerable populace in both developed and especially developing regions. Floods occur unexpectedly in …
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The role and potential of flood risk management in shaping land use – Flood-peak polders of the Tisza River from the perspective of integrated planning challenges
… analyst. At the Tisza River, the development of flood-peak polders (in line with the Further Development of the Vásárhelyi Plan Program – or VTT according to the Hungarian acronym) was a significant initiative in terms of flood management and rural development in the period 2000-2020, but the …
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Does the concept of “resilience” offer new insights for effective policy-making? An analysis of its feasibility and practicability for flood risk management in the UK
… these three aspects within the context of flood risk management in the UK, which is uniquely suited to studying the practicability of a cross-disciplinary concept like resilience, because it connects issues of natural resource management, social planning, and disaster management. First, I …
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Improving the regulatory framework of floodplain development and management in the United Kingdom
The Flood Risk Management Framework is a means through which flood risk management is achieved with the aim of mitigating the impact of flooding on communities. Within the United Kingdom, this is achieved through a mixture of legislation, directives, regulations and guidance notes. Flooding is set …
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Analysing urban flood risk in low-cost settlements of George, Western Cape, South Africa : investigating physical and social dimensions
… both the physical and social dimensions of urban flood risk. The following analytical questions are therefore considered: i) What constitutes urban flooding? ii) What processes influence the urban flood hazardscape? iii) What makes people vulnerable to urban flooding? iv) How does one assess urban …
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An analysis of hydraulic, environmental and economic impacts of flood polder management at the Elbe River
Flood polders are part of the flood risk management strategy for many lowland rivers. They are used for the controlled storage of flood water so as to lower peak discharges of large floods. Consequently, the flood hazard in adjacent and downstream river reaches is decreased in the case of flood …
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A participatory GIS approach to flood risk assessment of informal settlements the case of Cape Town
… most of these settlements are prone to flooding after prolonged rainfall. Current flood risk management techniques implemented by the authorities of the Cape Town City Council (CTCC) are ideal for formally planned settlements but are not designed to support informal settlements...This …
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An Exploration into the Views and Perspectives of Welsh Local Authority Practitioners Towards Natural Flood Management (NFM)
Natural flood management (NFM), the catchment-based, natural approach to flood risk management, has gained momentum in academic and governmental circles in recent years as a sustainable, multi-functional approach that can reduce flood risk but also contribute to wider goals in today’s society. …
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Riverine flooding using GIS and remote sensing
Floods are caused by extreme meteorological and hydrological changes that are influenced directly or indirectly by human activities within the environment. The flood trends show that floods will reoccur and shall continue to affect the livelihoods, property, agriculture and the surrounding …
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Examining business perceptions of flood risk in relation to the governance of flood mitigation on the Humber Estuary
… the reconciliation of economic development and flood risk mitigation on the Humber Estuary, England. As sea level-rise is increasing due to suspected anthropogenic climate change, the Environment Agency has taken a lead role in mitigating flood risk on the Humber estuary through the process of …
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Collaborative Flood Risk Governance at Property Scale: the Challenges and Discourse around Property Level Flood Risk Data in England
Flooding in the UK is reported to become a more severe and localised phenomenon in the future due to climate change (EA, 2009b; Evans et al., 2004) and the population growth (DEFRA and EA, 2006a). To date, it has been estimated that one in six properties in England and Wales is at risk of flooding …
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Uso de instrumentos da gestão do risco de cheias como ferramenta no planejamento urbano
Historically, the problems associated with flooding in urban areas were mainly attributed to excessive rainfall – reducing the importance of the effects caused by human actions – and the solutions to such problems focused on engineering works aimed at increasing the drainage capacity of the rivers …
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Predicting salmonid population ecology from individual fish responses to environmental changes: bridging behaviour, conservation and fisheries management.
Current habitat-association models used in the management of the socio-economically and ecologically important chalk stream salmonid populations fail to incorporate fish behaviour and the interactions between fish with their environment and this limits their ability predicting management-relevant …
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