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Flood mitigation is a related but separate concept describing a broader set of strategies taken to reduce flood risk and potential impact while improving resilience against flood events. As climate change has led to increased flood risk an intensity, flood management is an important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience .
Climate change is already making extreme flooding more frequent and intense and by 2050 100-year flood events are projected to occur at least twice as frequently as today across 40% of the planet.
While flood control aims mainly on reducing or preventing the negative effects of floods, IFM aims on reducing the overall risk by means of land and water resources management with the goal of maximizing the benefits from the use of flood plains and minimizing the damage and loss of life due to flooding in a sustainable manner. [1]
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".
Blount’s Creek in Fayetteville flooded and destroyed this section of Gillespie Street during Hurricane Matthew in 2016. In 2023, the city made plans to spend $21.6 million on flood mitigation ...
The scope of the flooding was extensive, but the water largely went where it was supposed to go because of those flood mitigation efforts. "Our flood mitigation on North Main Street, flood walls ...
There are several types of urban flooding, each with a different cause. City planners distinguish pluvial flooding (flooding caused by heavy rain), fluvial flooding (caused by a nearby river overflowing its banks), or coastal flooding (often caused by storm surges). Urban flooding is a hazard to both the population and infrastructure.
Governor Josh Shapiro, center, joined by local elected official to ceremonially sign House Bill 735 on Monday, Dec. 4 2023. HB 735 establishes the Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force.