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This function provides answers to frequently asked questions and leads the user to the respective Flood Management Tools and Flood Management Reference Centre for in depth information.

	I. Policy and planning for Flood Management (10) What human factors contribute to flooding? How can public policies that may appear to be disconnected with floods be factored in the flood policy? What are the different types of conflict in the context of flood management? How can they be avoided? What can be the causes of conflicts within a river basin? How does economic analysis help decision-making in flood management? When is cost-effectiveness analysis used as forms of economic analysis? Why do we need Environment Impact Assessment for flood management projects? What is the difference between environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA)? How can individual projects be designed and implemented within the framework of a basin management plan? How does participatory planning work at flood emergency planning?
	II. Risk Management for Flood (8) What is flood risk? What are the negative social impacts of flooding? What are the beneficial impacts of floods? What are the factors that make a community vulnerable? How does rural vulnerability differ from urban vulnerability? How can land use planning help reduce flood risks? How can the society benefit from greater flood risk awareness? How does flood insurance serve as a useful tool to deal with residual risks of flooding?
	III. Stakeholders Participation in Integrated Flood Management (5) What are the benefits of stakeholder participation? Who should be engaged in participatory decision making? How to identify stakeholders? What are the different stakeholder engagement approaches? What precautions need to be undertaken during stakeholder engagement?
	IV. Community Participation in Flood Management (7) How can the society benefit from greater flood risk awareness? How can community-based organizations (CBOs) play a role in flood management? What role a river basin organizations (RBOs) can play in integrated flood management approaches? How can communities organize themselves during flood emergency? How can the affected communities share the cost of risk reduction? How can the community at the village level work for emergency preparedness for flooding? What is the relationship between the level of flood risks and people's awareness about it?
	V. Environment and Economics Aspects of Flood Management (10) What is Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)? Why is economic analysis essential? How does economic analysis help decision-making in flood management? What are the differences between financial and economic analysis? What are the beneficial impacts of floods? What are the major challenges of assessment of benefits from flood management projects? How dose the use of flood plains to help reduce poverty? What human factors contribute to flooding? What are public catastrophe funds? What are the tools other than the traditional cost-benefit analysis for making financial decisions?
	VI. Economic Terms for Flood Management (15) Why is economic analysis essential? How does economic analysis help decision-making in flood management? How are financial and economic analysis different? How can the direct benefits from flood management determined? What are non-market values of floods benefits? What is the contingent valuation method (CVM)? What is hedonic pricing? How can the adverse effect of flood on house or land values be estimated by hedonic pricing? Why is the use of discount rate so critical in cost-benefit analysis (CBA)? What is Net Present value (NPV)? How is it calculated? What is the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project in term of the Net Present value (NPV)? How can sensitivity analysis deal with uncertainties surrounding projects in the flood management sector? When is cost-effectiveness analysis used as forms of economic analysis? What is multi-criteria analysis (MCA)? What are the major shortcomings of multi-criteria analysis (MCA)? How does public participation in decision-making help cost-benefit analysis (CBA)/ multi-criteria analysis (MCA)?

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