What role do floodplain areas play for national development? Can a society afford to abandon them? To what degree and under which conditions? And how should direct subsidies (e.g. to agriculture) or incentives (flood protection, insurance, compensation) be structured to attain the best result? What role does the degree of development of an area play?
SUBSIDIES OR INCENTIVE FOR FLOOD PRONE REGIONS
Tue, 05/18/2010 - 15:06 — GS RadjouDifficult to say. Obviously as flood prone regions are relevant for National GDP it is relevant to find funds for agrobusiness development through farming or business creation. It is fine, as long as the disaster risk assessment is made by the relevant authorities. What matters is the safety and protection of people livelyhood and properties. Obviously, embankment artemporary measures and if a flood occurs, authorities should discourage people to resettle in a dangerous zone as long as, no one can mitigate. I would be happy, to have policies improving the urbanism with rising farms (and also flood prone urbanism) when the water goes up. Instead of incentives, subsidies would help people to resettle elsewehere where it is safe from water hazards. As floods and disasters are increasing in numbers and infrastructures are never permanent. There is a need to monitor and allocate resources to communities according to the risk assessment
Who is paying for flood
Wed, 07/29/2009 - 17:14 — GS RadjouI think the free market society when it is an individual or a little group decisions to build in the face of adversities.
We learned on the late (I suppose) how to deal with floods, but because cities are slow moving and are places where gather huge amount of individuals an answer can only be collective and at state (communal) levels.
There are huge opportunities of spendings and investment in technologies, urbanisms, insurances...Of course, it does not mean that individuals are not reponsible for doing a little bit of the work by being disciplined.
Flood plains are sources of wealth for several activies.