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Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate

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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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  • International Rivers Network IRN, 2011. "Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate," Working Papers id:3531, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:3531
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    storms; dam management; rivers; coasts; nature; flood control; floods; risk; rechniques; communities; flood control technique; climate;
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