Sentences with phrase «high flood defence»
If the Telegraph of Lawson and Monckton has anything to do with it, this will involve building tough immigration controls, higher flood defences and rigorous news management to keep out climate refugees, water, and bad news from the lower latitudes, respectively.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
If you don't know how high a river will rise, you should build flood defences that adjust to different levels of flooding.
They argue that while large public investments in dams and flood defences, for example, must account for the possibilities of how weather might change in the future, this should not prevent short - term thinking to address more immediate vulnerability to inevitable high - impact weather events.
Hence we must start to adapt now, be that planning higher defences, flood proofing buildings and strategically planning coastal land use.»
The whole thing is based on a set of forecasts — for example, how high should our flood defences be?