Sentences with phrase «flood protection measures»

With the help of more than $ 3 billion in funding from the federal and state government, Cedar Rapids is recovering and has taken significant steps to reduce future flood damage, with buyouts of more than 1,000 properties, and numerous buildings adapted with flood protection measures.

A comprehensive risk assessment would determine flood hazard for individual structures by modeling watershed and floodplain characteristics at fine spatial scales; it would describe the varying levels of protection offered by all elements of a flood protection system and mitigation measures; and it would account explicitly for uncertainties, including those related to current and future flood hazard, structure value and vulnerability, and the current and future performance of flood protection measures.

In poorer areas, such as the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where there is very little capital available, it may make more economic sense to boost their economic performance and accept a degree of flood risk instead of pouring resources into flood protection measures which have very little success anyway.»

The study said investment in flood protection measures could help reduce the magnitude of overall flood losses in the future.

Throughout Germany, two thirds of the former floodplains have been lost to dikes and other flood protection measures.

As the world warms, we will have to review all manner of basic assumptions to keep flood protection measures robust, says Jim Hall

Not exact matches

As part of the New York Crossings Project, the Governor also announced the state will implement new tunnel barriers to control major floods and seismic measures on bridges which will provide long - term protection from earthquakes and other natural forces.

On a more positive note, river flood losses in Europe show a near - static trend (despite their increased frequency), indicating that protection measures that have been implemented may have stemmed flood losses.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Direct subsidies are not invested in flood protection but are often invested in measures that merely maximise profit in the short term.

NFIP currently assesses flood risk in terms of the probability and depth of flooding, the economic value of the assets subject to damage, the vulnerability of the structure, and the performance of flood protection and mitigation measures.

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

Measures include the rise of flood protections, reduction of the peak flows through water retention, reduction of vulnerability and relocation to safer areas.

Further adaptation measures to reduce the peak flow should make use of natural retention capacity upstream, while rising flood protections should be seen as last resort, to compensate for the residual risk in areas where other options can not be implemented.