Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate
Published By: IRN on eSS | Published Date: May, 31 , 2007Improving 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.
Author(s): International Rivers Network IRN | Posted on: Jan 31, 2011 | Views(1127) | Download (656)