Sentences with phrase «flood plains where»

One can note that the criteria defining the relocation mask are independent of the local exposure and vulnerability, thus suggesting the following two considerations: 1) this measure leads to higher benefits in countries with considerable developments along rivers and potentially large flood depths, while little risk reduction can be achieved in wide flood plains where the flooding rarely reaches high depths.

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There has also been controversy over exactly where the new homes are going to be built, with the government suggesting it was prepared to construct on flood plains.
Knowing where landslides take place in the mountains could help us better predict whether or not large deposits of gravel will reach the Ganga Plain and increase flood risk.»
The snails used to breed on small flood plain islands where annual flooding prevented a population explosion.
At the heart of the unrest were starvation and famine in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, where grain harvests were critically dependent on annual flooding of fertile plains by the East African monsoon.
Flood insurance is only available where the local government has adopted adequate flood plain management regulations under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
The first upscale resort in one of Myanmar's most compelling destinations, Inle Lake, has launched a boat journey to an ancient capital where more than 100 stupas lie in a flooded plain.
The village style property is located beneath a canopy of trees beside Yellow Water Billabong, home to world - renowned Yellow Water Cruises, where crocodiles and birds are seen on the flood plain amongst Paperbark, Pandanus and Fresh Water Mangroves.
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My analysis is based on a simple model where investments are assumed to be more productive in flood - prone areas, because there are close to coast and rivers, lowering transportation costs, or because of urbanisation, which leads to concentration and development in river flood plains.
The population is expanding, and we are building where we shouldn't — in flood plains, on fragile beaches, in valleys, and on muddy hillsides.
Business work there., Farmers work there in very low lying flood plains... where the majority of the worlds Sugar Cane is grown and other food produce including Cattle Farms and so on.
Farming in Africa is often done in marginal areas — such as flood plains, deserts, and hillsides — where ever more frequent weather shocks cause severe damage to soil and crops.
My suggestion would be to look for properties than may be listed as «unbuildable» or odd lots where grade or drainage (flood plain) might make building conventionally difficult or limit the use of footing, basement, conventional septic.
You should now fully understand what a flood plain is and where to find information about local flood plains.
Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.
The most susceptible populations in these areas were in areas with high levels of poverty, and where large populations had clustered on marginal land such as flood plains or coastal regions in cyclone - prone areas.
«Over decades of trial - and - error, the people living there had figured out where to locate the buildings for optimal heat gain, scenic views, and to be clear of flood plains, among other factors,» he explains.
Local newspapers routinely urge Oak Lawn residents to look into buying flood insurance riders if their home lies in a flood plain, where local waterways can inundate an Oak Lawn property with water.
Where you live based on crime statistics, if you're in a flood plain, and other factors will affect how much you pay for your Bolingbrook renters insurance policy.
Are you close to a water plain where flooding or water damage is more likely?
For example, a local company who offers Hoboken renters insurance will no doubt be very familiar with the different issues that their clients face, such as subsidence, a tendency to be involved in an earthquake, flood insurance and where the flood plains actually start and end, and other important details.
Flood insurance is only available where the local government has adopted adequate flood plain management regulations under the National Flood In
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