Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood Risk Reduction: Experiences in Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management From California and Germany

Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood Risk Reduction: Experiences in Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management From California and Germany

Conventional flood control has emphasized structural measures such as levees, reservoirs, and engineered channels—measures that typically simplify river channels and cut them off from their floodplain, both with adverse environmental consequences. Structural measures tend to be rigid and not easily...

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Main Authors: Anna Serra-Llobet, Sonja C. Jähnig, Juergen Geist, G. Mathias Kondolf, Christian Damm, Mathias Scholz, Jay Lund, Jeff J. Opperman, Sarah M. Yarnell, Anitra Pawley, Eileen Shader, John Cain, Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Theodore E. Grantham, William Eisenstein, Rafael Schmitt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
floodplain management
flood risk management
California Central Valley
United States
Germany
multi-benefit
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.778568/full

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