Flood risks are rising, yet communities may spend millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding on systems that aren’t built to handle them.
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Extreme weather is set to dominate our future – can collecting rainwater reduce the threat posed by both drought and flooding?
Our heavy reliance on sandbagging suggests we really don’t understand the river landscapes we inhabit. We must learn from communities that have developed better solutions to living with floods.
Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.
Current policy to manage and protect people from flooding disadvantages those who are most vulnerable.
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
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Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Development, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Water and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate, University of Sheffield
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Professor, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Lecturer of Civil, Environmental and Water Engineering, Atlantic Technological University
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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Professor of Dryland Hydrology, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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University of Bristol
