Sentences with phrase «manage urban flooding»

They absorb water, helping to mitigate and manage urban flooding, and make our increasingly hot cities that bit cooler.

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Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University whose home just north of the city up the Hudson River was flooded by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, has been calling the necessary urban design approach «managed retreat» (Reed Noss of the University of Central Florida has been making the same argument in the context of wildlife conservation).

This manual provides operational guidance on how to manage the risk of floods in a transforming urban environment and changeable climate.