The concept of "acceptable levels of flood risk" is used in part to prioritize action in flood management. What is an acceptable risk is dependent on many factors: what other risks play a role, recent flood events, as well as various social and political factors. What mechanisms are there to establish "acceptable levels of flood risk"?
Risk perception is, however, not uniform across different sections of society. So how can flood management policy take those differences into account?
FLOOD INSURANCE
Wed, 06/09/2010 - 14:58 — GS RadjouOf course, a best policy would be to live far away from flood prone regions or have your house equipped with exits in case water raises dangerously (perhaps get a team to check the ageing wall). You may also have the option to prepare some food rations and water supplies if you think you may lack the resources during a flood (even make ready a fully equipped survival boats if you live in Islands).
Other possible answers added to the above precautionary measures to sustain your life in the aftermath of the water hazards are avoidance of damages to your properties, livelyhoods. Maybe it is best to have an insurance policy that covers for these risks rather than relying on aids from rescuers and humanitarian actions.
In some parts of the world, some countries have a long tradition of fighting floods (like the Dutch, for instance 27% of the country is under the level of the sea) for over a century they dry up the land and build on water with artificial islands). Still, today they are building the flood architecture of the 21rst century: rising cities. Yourself, you may just have the recurse of the insurance policy. A bit of money evry months can make a great impact during the post recovery operations (and also before).
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Flood tests similarly to flight tests
Sun, 04/18/2010 - 17:01 — GS RadjouI take the opportunity to take an analogy with flight tests, which are being carried in France on special air corridors (and soon in UK). Since, this volcanic eruptions in Iceland created a mega flood and cahos for airliners. (I heard part of the country was covered with a 10 meter flood. Usually, this is expected to happen in Bangladesh or in tropical countries during monsoon, but not in Iceland). Still it has happened in the iciest country. The volcano ashy heat melted the frozen snow and these ashes made airliners vulnerable. Travellers could get some kind of compensations (refunds,...). until the companies collapsed. It is unfair. Safety inspectors are carrying flight tests. Passengers` safety is paramount with an unchanges security scope. Also, a contingency planning is in place and these flight tests. I wonder in addition to hydrograph and Flood modelling, if there is similarly flood flow tests in flood corridors in order to assess safety risks to customers of nearby water features
Flood risk perception
Thu, 08/06/2009 - 14:25 — GS RadjouRisk like the environment is a social construct. What should be done to realize this first in order to cater for each needs and find niches. of course, we need to find an average acceptable level for a workable definition.
Multinational corporates are good at doing this for various services and products (AIR: airline meals and duty free in-board, World Co selling on forecasted demands, Nestle the world n°1 for Food, Rand project access to bases...) and complement these measures with technologies (mobile phone with cameras, wireless RFID, nanotechnologies, laptops and home computing, upgade old thinking)) and narrative stories about flood treatments.