Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management

Colin Green

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Colin Green. Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2010, 1(1): 33-43. doi: 10.3974/j.issn.2095-0055.2010.01.006

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Colin Green. Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2010, 1(1): 33-43. doi: 10.3974/j.issn.2095-0055.2010.01.006

Colin Green. Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2010, 1(1): 33-43. doi: 10.3974/j.issn.2095-0055.2010.01.006

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Colin Green. Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2010, 1(1): 33-43. doi: 10.3974/j.issn.2095-0055.2010.01.006

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Towards Sustainable Flood Risk Management

doi: 10.3974/j.issn.2095-0055.2010.01.006

Colin Green^,

Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield, Middlesex EN3 4SA, U.K.

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Sustainable development means doing more with less; this requires change from existing practices. We must make improvements and learn, in the face of those changes that are occurring because we have not delivered sustainable development up until now. So we seek to make changes in the context of changes. This paper focuses on the question of “how” we do more with less and develops the concept of adopting a systemic approach, recognizing that we are dealing with dynamic, highly interconnected systems.
- change,
- integrated water resource management,
- social relations,
- sustainable development,
- systems

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