Flood risk management: A Strategic Approach

This paper is the result of an international collaborative effort to review and distill approaches to water management in challenging large scale and inter-related environments, providing new insights into good strategic planning and risk management of water resources and floods. The paper provides an overview of the common process and frameworks of flood risk management and provides guidance on the specific techniques available and to describe how and when these techniques might be used, illustrated with case studies from around the world.