It has been busily lowering floodplains, widening rivers and side channels – basically giving the river space to cope with extra water – and moving 200 families, including the Hooijmaaijers, out of their homes.
This river space is to be preserved for the sake of ecology, riparian vegetation and nutrient recycling during floods.
The future scope of the present work is that the values of return period flood can be used to construct the flood hazard zones and define the river space.
Their findings show dissimilarity between the two cities in their interaction with river space as manifested in the high degree of urbanity in one city and the low degree of urbanity in another city.
The Dutch "Room for the River" program,1 established in response to the devastating 1993 and 1995 Rhine delta floods in the Netherlands, is a good example of combining DRR and CCA approaches that aims to give rivers space to flood safely in order to protect vulnerable urban and rural areas.
Harris's many novels include a trio set in London (Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness, 1977; The Tree of the Sun, 1978; The Angel at the Gate, 1982) and another trilogy comprising Carnival (1985), The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990).
Harris's many novels included a trio set in London (Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness, 1977; The Tree of the Sun, 1978; The Angel at the Gate, 1982) and another trilogy comprising Carnival (1985), The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990).
National Resources has put forth a bold concept for Tarrytown: a mixed-use project including an aquatic center with a swimming pool, a public esplanade along the river, commercial space, a relatively low density residential development and a new Village Hall.
Ho Chi Minh City and Rotterdam are both seeking to strike a balance between the two main approaches to flood protection: bolstering expensive, hard protections while also "making room for the river" – creating space for water to run without damaging developed areas.
WHAT OTHERS SAY Ken Barnett, chief executive of MARS Advertising, a marketing agency based in Southfield, Mich., that lost everything in its 50,000-square-foot headquarters to a 2004 fire: "The karma may be great along the river, the space may be perfect, but the fact is there are enough things in business that you cannot plan for.
A public consultation set up by the city authorities to examine the permanent closure of the Voie Georges-Pompidou, which would free up 4.5 hectares of river bank space for pedestrians, advised against the closure of the highway in its report of 22 August.
