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How Floodplain Development Can Improve Flood Resilience: Best Practices and

5 Apr 2022

This involves assessing the ability of communities and infrastructure to bear the consequences of these hydrological events, as well as understanding the dynamics and expected trends in the context of climate change. [...] The combination of a flood with a southerly wind causes water levels at the lake outlet to rise significantly and also affects the duration of flooding—six weeks in the case of the 2011 event in the LCRR basin. [...] This urban project was designed to deal with the presence of water in the territory, relying on the proximity of waterways to develop a strong project identity: “living close to the water/putting water back into the city/creating awareness of hazards related to the neighbourhood’s changing landscape in response to rainfall events” (Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, 2017). [...] The scale of the damage prompted the town of Percé to consider a more sustainable development solution to preserve the tourist infrastructure along the coast and the heart of the city. [...] As part of the vulnerability and resilience analysis of riparian communities in the Quebec portion of the LCRR, a social acceptability study of potential structural mitigation measures in the Richelieu River was conducted.

Authors

Amanda Flynn

Pages
49
Published in
Canada