Sentences with phrase «flood damage reduction»

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The bill also establishes a fund for local governments to invest in future flood control and mitigation projects, and it allows some damaged properties to get tax assessment reductions.

Yet, the main driver of this debt reduction — using flood insurance to pay off mortgages of damaged homes, rather than rebuilding or repairing them — may ultimately harm the city's recovery, the study suggests.

• $ 1.8 billion to support public health and safety by funding flood and storm damage reduction activities, an increase of $ 74 million above fiscal year 2017 and $ 424 million above the budget request.

In the Caribbean, unsustainable land management practices are causing soil degradation and damage of natural habitats, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and reduction of natural buffers to droughts and floods.

, lightning related insurance claims, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane burps, melting permafrost, migration, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, more bad air days, more research needed, mountains break up, mudslides, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, nuclear plants bloom, ocean acidification, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, pests increase, plankton blooms, plankton loss, plant viruses, polar tours scrapped, psychosocial disturbances, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, refugees, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rift on Capitol Hill, rivers raised, rivers dry up, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, Ross river disease, salinity reduction, Salmonella, sea level rise, sex change, ski resorts threatened, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, spectacular orchids, tectonic plate movement, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, tropics expansion, tsunamis, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus pups orphaned, wars over water, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20 % of increase), weeds, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wine — harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine — more English, wine — no more French, wind shift, winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, Yellow fever.

Flooding from rivers affects more people worldwide than any other natural hazard, costing an average of $ 104bn (pdf)(# 80bn) every year in damages, according to a report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

(3) identifies any use by the State or Indian tribe of allowances distributed under this section for the reduction of flood and storm damage and the effects of climate change on water and flood protection infrastructure.

For example, an increase in the frequency or magnitude of floods and droughts could lead to yield reductions, crop damage, and crop failure [6].

After all, in Mass v EPA, Justice Stevens, in his majority opinion, reasoned that when it comes to greenhouses gases and climate change, even though a reduction in emissions from tailpipes can not be directly linked to preventing damage from floods to, say, the Massachusetts coast, every bit helps.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Taylor based his reductions along the same line as Tangipahoa Assessor Joaquin «JR.» Mattheu, whose parish also sustained considerable flood damage.