Flood management describes methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes...
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intense floods and increased flood risk. Natural types of floods include river flooding, groundwater flooding coastal flooding and urban flooding sometimes...
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Flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands, as due to its low elevation, approximately two thirds of its area is vulnerable to flooding, while...
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infrastructure, homes, and agricultural land. The flooding exposed critical issues with the city's flood management infrastructure and urban planning, highlighting...
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A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe...
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water management can help with reducing urban floods. There are several types of urban flooding, each with a different cause: Pluvial (flooding caused...
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Natural disasters in Japan (redirect from Floods in Japan)
increasing cause of flooding in Japan. Flood management has been important in Japan for generations. The first form of flood management dates back to the...
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Integrated Flood Management (IFM) (also Integrated Flood Risk Managment) is an approach to managing floods that emphasizes collaboration among various...
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Based in Bristol, the Environment Agency is responsible for flood management, waste management, regulating land and water pollution, and conservation. The...
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(Chinese: 海绵城市) is a new urban planning model in China that emphasizes flood management via strengthening green infrastructures instead of purely relying on...
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Benin City (section Flood management)
2019). "Effects of Seasonal Flooding in Benin City and the need for a Community-Based Adaptation Model in Disaster Management in Nigeria". Nigerian Journal...
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balance of a site, with consideration of rainwater harvesting, urban flood management and rainwater runoff pollution control. The continuous growth of human...
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by the floods, and ₹50,000 provided to the injured, both through the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund. Kerala's State Disaster Management Authority...
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Gandaki River (section Flood management)
Canal. Flood management does not aim at total elimination or control of floods or providing total immunity from the effects of all magnitudes of floods, which...
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Director of the School of Business and Management in Valencia Antonio Noblejas is among the missing people. The flooding significantly damaged buildings and...
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Floodplain (redirect from Flood plain)
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of...
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reservoirs for the purpose of flood control, as well as hydroelectric power generation, water distribution and management, and recreation. The first of...
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stony beach of Killiney Strand, north of the Shanganagh Cliffs. A flood management project was launched in 2021, covering the Carrickmines-Shanganagh...
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Coastal flooding occurs when dry and low-lying land is submerged (flooded) by seawater. The range of a coastal flooding is a result of the elevation of...
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Salvati, Paola (2005). "Evaluation of Flood and Landslide Risk to the Population of Italy". Environmental Management. 36 (1): 15–36. Bibcode:2005EnMan..36...
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Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Protection against rising sea levels in the...
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Eddleston Water (section Flood management)
for wildlife and to reduces the risk of flooding in Peebles and Eddleston. Known as natural flood management (NFM) it involves re-meandering, tree planting...
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engineered flood management structures, including dams and levees, prove inadequate to manage the quantities and force of flood waters. Floods can also...
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Natural disasters in Nigeria (redirect from Floods in Nigeria)
by the 2012 flood, collaborated with the Bayelsa state government of Nigeria to host a post-flood management workshop. The proposed flood impact, control...
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manage the issues of flood management on country-wide basis. In the Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council is responsible...
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Flood forecasting is the process of predicting the occurrence, magnitude, timing, and duration of floods in a specific area, often by analysing various...
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Amirul Hossain; Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya. "Flood Management in the Flood Plain of Bangladesh". "1988 Flood Archive". Archived from the original on 2016-04-13...
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The Great Flood of 1993 (or Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993) was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi...
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nature-based systems for climate change adaptation can include natural flood management, restoring natural coastal defences, and providing local cooling.: 310 ...
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The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c.29) is a UK Act of Parliament relating to the management of the risk concerning flooding and coastal erosion...
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