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Natural flood management for disaster risk reduction

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Introduction

Ecosystem-based approaches can provide effective solutions for flood risk management.

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Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction
Hazards
Flood
Themes
Disaster risk management
Environment and ecosystems

Knowledge base

Documents and publications
Smarter flood risk management in England: investing in resilient catchments

This policy insight warns that England’s current approach to flood risk is contradictory, and skewed towards short-term reactive responses that ignore the central role of land management in building resilience to flooding. Severe flooding has occurred in

Green Alliance
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The role of green infrastructure solutions in urban flood risk management

This note highlights the impact of floods on the urban poor. Ninety percent of new urban residents are in Africa and Asia, which have some of the poorest countries in the world. Many new urban residents end up in informal settlements, often in locations

World Bank Institute
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Documents and publications
How rewilding reduces flood risk: A natural approach to flood management that repairs and revitalises our broken ecosystems

This report looks closely at a wide range of examples related to rewilding and also considers findings from academic sources and NGOs. This report outlines the importance of rewilding in restoring land and water not just for wildlife but also for humans

Rewilding Britain
Documents and publications
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Applying ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in integrated water resource management

Between 2013 and 2016, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Commission (EC) supported a pilot demonstration project on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This

United Nations Environment Programme
European Commission
Documents and publications
Urban coastal resilience: Valuing nature’s role

This report considers the use of natural infrastructure to address flood and other climate change–induced risks in an urban area, New York City community of Howard Beach, Queens.

The report evaluates:

  • the relative merits of various approaches to

Nature Conservancy, the

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