Flood Recovery
The Flood Green Guide Podcast Series: Episode 2
From the Netherlands to China to California, people around the world are working with nature to manage flood risk. But as multiple risk factors such as sea level rise, urban development and a changing climate continue to alter landscapes, standards for effective flood management are also changing. Including nature-based methods in flood management portfolios will…
Read MoreThe Flood Green Guide Podcast Series: Episode 1
From the Netherlands to China to California, people around the world are working with nature to manage flood risk. But as multiple risk factors such as sea level rise, urban development and a changing climate continue to alter landscapes, standards for effective flood management are also changing. Including nature-based methods in flood management portfolios will…
Read MoreFrom Flood to Fig: Norfolk’s food forest
You can grow your own food in a garden, but some people take it to the next level. Among them are the people of Norfolk, Virginia, who in December installed the city’s first food forest. The small forest’s pomegranate, elderberry, papaw and chocolate persimmon trees (to name a few) are the first step toward what…
Read MoreFlood Green Guide Training Workshop
Torrential monsoon rains have resulted in the loss of lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure across the Asian continent in recent weeks. Japan, Nepal, India, and Thailand have been among the hardest hit by the monsoon season, as the scale and frequency of regional flooding and landslides have increased in scale and scope. The upsurge of extreme…
Read MoreUrban Flood Risk Management
The central concern of this paper is to bring the different aspects of urban flood risks together under the umbrella of a risk management approach that aims to explain urban flood risks as well as to show possibilities of how they can be managed successfully. It will be argued that only the combination of spatial, technical and…
Read MoreConducting Flood Loss Assessments
This tool sets out to provide for the operational level a lead-in on available concepts and methods to assess flood losses for the activation and facilitation of local and external help and the formulation of recovery plans as well as long-term development planning and policy reform in the realm of flood management. Therefore, the material…
Read MoreFormulating a Basin Flood Management Plan
This tool is basically for the use of policy makers and flood practitioners to guide the contents and basic procedure of basin flood management planning. Several issues related to the flood management planning are explained such as national development vision/policy and enabling mechanism of planning. For more information visit: http://www.floodmanagement.info/
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