Soft engineering strategies (along rivers)
- Created by: Jenny Jones
- Created on: 07-05-14 18:18
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- Soft engineering strategies
- Flood warnings
- Environment agency warns people about possible flooding through TV, radio, newspapers and internet
- Advantages
- impact of flooding reduced- warnings give people time to put things upstairs, sandbags, evacuate
- Disadvantages
- warnings don't stop a flood from happening
- living in a place with lots of warnings could make it difficult to get insurance
- people may not have access to warnings
- Preparation
- buildings modified to reduce amount of damage from flood. people make plans for what to do in a flood
- Advantages
- impact of flooding reduced- buildings less damages and people know what to do when flood occurs
- people less likely to worry if prepared
- Disadvantages
- preparation doesn't guarantee safety from flood
- could give people false sense of security
- expensive to modify homes and businesses
- Flood plain zoning
- restrictions prevent building on parts of flood plain likely to be affected
- Advantages
- risk of flooding reduced- impermeable surfaces not created e.g buildings and roads
- impact of flooding reduced
- Disadvantages
- expansion of urban area is limited
- no use in areas that have already been built on
- Do nothing
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- risk and impacts of flooding aren't reduced causing a lot of damage
- Flood warnings
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