Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate

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.

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Year of publication:	2011-01
Institutions:	eSocialSciences ; International Rivers Network IRN
Subject:	storms \| dam management \| rivers \| coasts \| nature \| flood control \| floods \| risk \| rechniques \| communities \| flood control technique \| climate

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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