Flood management Ppt
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FLOOD MANAGEMENT Lesson Outcomes To have an overview of different flood management strategies used in different parts of the world. To understand the purposes of flood management. To evaluate some of the strategies used.
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FLOOD MANAGEMENTLesson Outcomes
To have an overview of different flood management strategies used in different parts of the world.
To understand the purposes of flood management. To evaluate some of the strategies used.
KEY IDEAS What are the aims of flood management?
Protection of people & property from the damaging impacts of floods
Alleviation (reduction) of the flood riskMonitoring, research, forecasting & warning
There are 2 main groups of strategies: -Hard engineering (structural) methods: e.g. water
storage dams, river channel modifications, embankments (levees)
Soft engineering (river basin management): e.g flood abatement, flood plain zoning (managed retreat), river restoration