Enhancing river floodplain management with nature‐based solutions: Overcoming barriers and harnessing enablers
Nikita Christopher,
Astrid Vachette,
Avril Horne
et al.
Abstract:Floodplains are regularly inundated areas of land that provide ecosystem benefits for the entire catchment area, along with numerous benefits for communities making them ideal for human settlement. The management of floodplains involves an ongoing dilemma; how best to balance the need to protect urban settlements from significant flood events with the benefits that inundation brings to the environmental and cultural values of the floodplain. These flood events have been traditionally addressed using technical … Show more
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