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Effective River Flooding Management Strategies to Prevent Future Disasters

Explore key strategies for managing rivers to prevent flooding, including hard and soft engineering approaches. Evaluate various options, such as land-use zoning, channel enlargement, afforestation, washlands, river straightening, levees, and dams to mitigate risks.

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Effective River Flooding Management Strategies to Prevent Future Disasters

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  1. How would you try to stop this happening again?

  2. Key management strategies • In an attempt to prevent flooding humans have tried to manage rivers. They can use the following strategies: • ‘Hard Engineering strategies’ - these require major alterations and changes to the river and try to stop the river from flooding • ‘Soft Engineering strategies’ - this is where limited alterations take place and flooding is more managed than prevented

  3. Evaluation of management strategies Complete the A3 sheet, the following pictures may help !

  4. 1. Land-use zoning

  5. 2. Channel enlargement

  6. 3. Afforsatation

  7. 3. Washlands

  8. 5.River straightening

  9. 6. Levees or embankments

  10. 7. Dams

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