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Flood Risk
The risk associated with flood events in a certain region and in a certain time ...
Measure
A policy intervention that is taken in the frame of flood risk management.
Adaptation
The process by which regions, stakeholders, assets or pieces of nature adapt in response to ...
Mitigation
The lessening of the potential adverse impacts of physical hazards (including those that are human-induced) ...
Vulnerability
The susceptibility (propensity) of regions, stakeholders, assets or pieces of nature to be adversely affected ...
Resilience
The ability of regions, stakeholders, assets or pieces of nature to prepare for, respond to, ...
Protection approaches
A protection approach involves defensive measures and other activities to protect areas against flood risk. ...
Accommodation approaches
The accommodate approach involves the continued occupancy and use of vulnerable zones by increasing society’s ...
Retreat approaches
The retreat approach refers to planned withdraw from the coast or the often inundated areas, ...
Source control measures
Any stormwater management practice designed to reduce and/or slow the flow of stormwater into a ...
Green measure
Green measures refer to natural land and plant based ecological treatment systems. They are designed ...
Blue measure
Blue measures are designed to slow water down (attenuate) before it enters watercourses, provide areas ...