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5.2 Flood Management in the Tropics (Impacts (Social (Human)
Amplified…
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to avoid flood hazard & overcomes key limitations of hard (-ve evmt impacts) that results in even more severe floods over time
Effectiveness:
- Sustainability
- Reliability
- Immediacy
- Economic Costs
- Environmental Costs
- Unintended outcomes
- Scale (basin wide/stretches)
- Influenced by insti factors & level of dvlpmt of country
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should integrate both SOFT & HARD where each overcomes limitations of the other
- Sustainability of hard
- Immediacy of soft
- Abatement + Dams / Regulation + Restoration
Prediction:
- Use of flood recurrence interval
- No. of discharge levels + 1 / rank of discharge where largest mag floods are 1st