Search Results - subject:"flood storage"

Risk-sharing policies in the context of the French Flood Prevention Action Programmes

Erdlenbruch, Katrin; Thoyer, Sophie; Grelot, Frédéric; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article analyzes the consequences for risk distribution of the French Flood Prevention Action Programme (PAPI). By redirecting floods from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable areas, PAPIs expose farmers to greater flood risks. This has led local water management institutions to...

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Hydrological Impacts of Flood Storage and Management on Irrigation Water Abstraction in Upper Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya

Ngigi, Stephen; Savenije, Hubert; Gichuki, Francis - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 12, pp. 1859-1879

seasons’ irrigation water abstractions on river flows, and to assess the hydrological impact of flood storage on temporal … monitoring records for 15 years. It assesses whether flood storage and management, can reduce dry seasons’ irrigation water … demonstrate that flood storage and management can reduce water abstraction and increase river flows during the dry seasons …

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