Selecting Measures and Designing Strategies for Integrated Flood Management

Sectors and Themes
Disaster Risk Reduction
Scale
National
Sub-national
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Resource Type
Guidance and Frameworks
Language
English
Developer or Source
Global Water Partnership (GWP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

This publication outlines the approach and steps to develop and evaluate well-balanced and well-motivated strategies to cope with the risk of flooding through an integrated approach. The design of strategies covers the full range of possible structural and non-structural measures, including structural protection and mitigation measures, planning and building codes, emergency management, raising of risk awareness and preparedness, risk-sharing and the like. This guidance document is mainly intended for persons responsible for planning-flood management activities, designing flood-defense systems and operating flood-control systems in the public and private sectors.

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