Sentence examples for floodplain development from inspiring English sources

As well as R&D, such areas include the EA's work on flood forecasting and warning, incident management, and advising on floodplain development".

Tighter planning controls over floodplain development, allied to a serious effort to shift economic activity and create jobs in lower-risk areas, are both needed to reduce future costs.

Deltares, a research institute, recommends that the Thai government emulate Room for the River by moving dykes farther back where possible, limiting floodplain development and unifying water management so that safety is no longer subservient to irrigation and electricity generation.But the Dutch approach has limits.

Floodplain development for partially alluvial channels is compared within a new floodplain discrimination framework.

In this study we investigated floodplain development at the confluence of the Paraná and Ivaí rivers, Brazil.

Holocene fluvial changes of the Guadalquivir River at Córdoba City were studied with an emphasis on floodplain development, river migration rates, sedimentation rates and environmental history.

Entrenchment and floodplain soil development (c. 2880 2490 cal. BC and cal. AD 1300 1640) coincided with warmer and drier conditions.

Additional geological data in these regions is expected to clarify the details of tropical peat distribution, as well as the floodplains' geomorphological development.

Our model identifies Entisols on floodplains developed from alluvial deposition in the latter Holocene that have soil morphologic features consistent with recent deposition and limited soil development.

For being flooded annually, it was not possible to bring the low lying floodplains under the development.

Using floodplains for any development other than farms is simply asking for trouble, asserts Criss.