Conservation and Restoration of Rivers and Floodplains; Flood Management Tool Series

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Disaster Risk Reduction
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Oceans and Coasts
Water
Scale
National
Sub-national
Resource Type
Guidance and Frameworks
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Language
English
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Global Water Partnership (GWP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

The tool aims at assisting practitioners mainly through reviewing and describing options for conservation and restoration of rivers and floodplains that can potentially assist flood management practitioners in addressing various flood management objectives, and providing an overview of current practices that could help flood management practitioners in identifying and establishing the values of ecosystem services generated under different conservation, restoration and flood management scenarios.

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