Sentence examples for flood risk mitigation from inspiring English sources

Reliable river flow forecasts play a key role in flood risk mitigation.

Flood defenses are crucial elements in flood risk mitigation in developed countries, especially in deltaic areas.

This research has implications for future soil geomorphic mapping and flood risk mitigation on desert piedmonts and playas.

As a first attempt to involve 3D geometric models of hydraulic structures into inundation extent analysis, this study is useful to flood risk mitigation in small reservoirs.

Information collected includes the local people's living, health, environment, and disaster history and was used to assist in flood risk mitigation decision-making processes.

In this paper, probabilistic cost-benefit analysis of flood risk mitigation strategies for portfolios of residential buildings is performed in a life-cycle context.

Birdlife found logging taking place in conservation zones such as Poloniny national park in eastern Slovakia and in Italian riverside forests around Emilia-Romagna, where it said it had been falsely presented as flood-risk mitigation.

Interviewees in two rural communities affected by flooding in 2003 revealed that residents were more likely to rely on the state government by activating historical channels of patronage (personal contacts and political links) rather the municipal authorities who had the official mandate for action on flood-risk mitigation (e.g., dredging, levee or bridge maintenance).

The L-moments and other statistical information derived from the study can be useful for important hydrological design considerations in connection with flood risk management, mitigation and safety; whereas the methodological framework of the study may be suitable for other small scaled catchment areas with high slope.

This study provides engineers and practitioners with a method that helps them better assess flood risks and develop mitigation plans accordingly.

The risk maps, delineated through the expert-drive qualitative (EDQ) approach currently adopted in several European countries, such as Italy, fail to represent the information base that needed by stakeholders for selecting the suitable objectives and designing the appropriate mitigation actions for flood risk management.