Adaptive Flood Risk Management
Author: KAMRAN EMAMI
Year: 2020,
Type: Irrigation and Drainage Journal, Format: Print
Now in second decade of the 21st century, it has become obvious, that the approach to flood management is increasingly adaptive and non-structural. In the last decades, adaptive management has been extensively utilized in environmental and restoration projects. In this context, adopting the strategies of adaptive management in water engineering and flood management appears to offer great advantages. Adaptive management is a structured, iterative process of optimal decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertainty over time via system monitoring.