Associated benefits and costs of the Canadian flood damage reduction program / Rob de Loe [and] Danuta Wojtanowski.

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TextPublication details: [S.l.] : Elsevier Science, 2000Description: p. 1-21Subject(s):

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Subject: Canada's Flood Damage Reduction Program (FDRP), launched in 1975, initiated a national shift away from reliance on flood control structures such as dams to the use of non-structural measures, including floodplain mapping and zoning. This paper concludes that the Canadian federal government's initiative to wind down this important non-structural floodplain management initiative - based on the argument that it was a narrow, single-sector initiative - was lamentable

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	P551.4890971 ASS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011642362

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Reprinted from Applied Geography, 21 (2001), 1-21

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Canada's Flood Damage Reduction Program (FDRP), launched in 1975, initiated a national shift away from reliance on flood control structures such as dams to the use of non-structural measures, including floodplain mapping and zoning. This paper concludes that the Canadian federal government's initiative to wind down this important non-structural floodplain management initiative - based on the argument that it was a narrow, single-sector initiative - was lamentable

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