Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways,
using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow,
proper programs
of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council
consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction
of native species too.
Rosen also acted as a
consultant in the development
of a report titled «Best Practice Standards: The
Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring» prepared by a group
of national civil and workers» rights organizations that included the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National H.I.R.E. Network, and the National Workrights Institute.