Sentence examples for flood risk reducing from inspiring English sources
Higher premiums for the low-risk properties could encourage their owners to self-insure for flood risk, reducing the cross-subsidy available for flood-prone areas, says Diane Horn at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Examples of physical measures are classic flood risk reducing methods such as barriers, dikes, embankments, walls, and dams (Goltermann and Marengwa 2012).
Even when flood risk reducing investments are made, if insurers fail to reward homeowners with lower premiums/excesses, the financial payoff acting as an incentive for further action is lost (#2, 3, 6, 9).
For thousands of years, humans have created different types of terraces in different sloping conditions, meant to mitigate flood risks, reduce soil erosion and conserve water.
My team has been working to get as much power as possible with a two-way generator, which will produce power on an out-going tide and in-coming tide, that way the flood risk is reduced".
Making the landscape less connected, facilitating less rainfall to be transformed into runoff and therefore reducing flood risk, increasing soil moisture and reducing droughts and soil erosion we can achieve the sustainability.
What nobody is talking about yet, is whether the flood risk can be reduced.
"But the benefit of creating the habitat here is not only to reduce flood risk in this area but also to reduce flood risk to communities in Portsmouth and Southampton.
Investments in stormwater capture and infiltration help reduce coastal and river pollution, reduce flood risk and, most importantly, augment local water supply.
The scheme has benefitted the approximately 3,000 residents of Haltwhistle by actively reducing flood risk.
They can also deliver more benefits than just reducing flood risk, such as improving water quality, preventing erosion and in some cases storing carbon".
