Multi-scale impacts of land management on flooding

Wheater, H.S.; Mcintyre, N.; Jackson, B.M.; Marshall, Miles; Ballard, C.; Bulygina, N.S.; Reynolds, B.; Frogbrook, Z.. 2011 Multi-scale impacts of land management on flooding. In: Pender, Gareth; Faulkner, Hazel, (eds.) Flood Risk Science and Management. Chichester, Wiley, 39-59.

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Abstract/Summary

Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully planned.

Item Type:	Book Section
Programmes:	CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 onwards > Water > WA Topic 2 - Ecohydrological Processes > WA - 2.2 - Integrate the effect of urban and rural land use on the ecohydrological functioning of a landscape mosaic
CEH Sections:	Emmett
ISBN:	978-1-4051-8657-5
NORA Subject Terms:	Agriculture and Soil Science Hydrology
Date made live:	04 Nov 2011 10:36
URI:	http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10612

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