Floodplains

This policy brief is the third in a series of briefs exploring the nexus of climate change with migration, displacement, and mobility, and local economies and livelihoods. [...] In some …

cattle owners for access to water basins and floodplains. Chieftains and local administrators tend to …

The Global Water Monitor 2024 Summary Report provides a comprehensive assessment of global water resources and their variability throughout the year. This third annual report documents significant hydrological trends, extreme …

Brazil. The remainder is associated with natural floodplains, water bodies and wetlands. The number of …

Place-based investments can have unintended general equilibrium effects and face challenges of time inconsistency. This paper simulates the granular impact of alternative spatial and temporal designs of such investments, using …

providing incentives to move to lower density floodplains. With the optimal design the level of population …

This policy note synthesizes the results of collaboration between the Government of Mongolia (GoM) and the World Bank that produced a body of analytic and advisory work that can be …

Furthermore, the conservation and rehabilitation of floodplains and riparian reserves could be implemented over …

The project is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of UN (FAO) with a dedicated Project Implementation Unit (PIU) based in Kabul. [...] • Describe the measures that will …

• Restoration and conservation of natural floodplains. • Immediate improvement of flood- affected …

Abstract Public capacity complements urban density because externalities abound in cities and urban scale makes it possible to share infrastructure that needs to be managed. Yet, urban governments face limitations …

out of floodplains would seem to be a sensible form of urban planning. Yet if these floodplains are close …

The world is currently facing a biodiversity and climate crisis which are globally interlinked. Nature-based solutions (NbS) is part of the solution to these challenges. NbS encompass different actions spanning …

aquatic ecosystems.  Reconnecting rivers to floodplains: can protect downstream areas from flooding by … For example, NbS like restoring wetlands and floodplains absorb and slow floodwaters, reducing the risk …

Los sitios demostrativos en ecohidrología de UNESCO/PHI: estado actual de la red con énfasis en América Latina y el Caribe 3. [...] Los sitios demostrativos en ecohidrología de UNESCO/PHI: estado …

stream-groundwater interactions of running waters and their floodplains, Journal of the North American Benthological …

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are recognised as contributing to international climate and biodiversity goals as well as solving other major societal challenges. Still, there are barriers to using NBS in the …

as floods and droughts. Natural wetlands and floodplains may for example decrease the flooding extents … functions. For example, the loss of natural floodplains and wetlands that can contribute to water retention …

Factory-built housing, which involves constructing some or all of a house off-site in a factory, has long presented a more affordable method of housing construction, capable of achieving greater material …

more vulnerable to climate hazards, such as in floodplains or in wildland- urban interfaces (geographic …