Some actions to minimise the risk of catastrophic floods can make life more pleasant, even when it isn’t raining.
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Flood risks are rising, yet communities may spend millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding on systems that aren’t built to handle them.
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 Disasters and Health, UCL
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