Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate

International Rivers Network Irn

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Abstract: Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set of techniques -- the "soft path" of flood risk management, which aims to understand, adapt to and work with the forces of nature. The report gives an in-depth look at the flaws with hard, structural flood-control techniques and describes what we need to do to make our communities safer from floods.

Keywords: storms; dam management; rivers; coasts; nature; flood control; floods; risk; rechniques; communities; flood control technique; climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01
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