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Assessing Applicability of Structural Measures for Enhancing Flood Management in Sri Lanka

Authors : Rusiru Ernst, Udayangani Kulatunga, Pavithra Rathnasiri

Published in: ICSECM 2019

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Floods can be identified as one of the most devastating natural disasters all over the world which brings a considerable amount of social, economic and environmental impacts. Therefore, it is important to focus on adequate knowledge, strategies and decision makers in order to prevent these floods from becoming disasters. Different measures are taken in order to respond to the prevailing disaster situations and those measures can be categorized as structural measures as well as non-structural measures. Among them, substantial attention should be paid for adopting structural measures for flood mitigation. Structural measures can be defined as different types of facilities which are permanently constructed with the aim of reducing potential risk at an event of a flood. The study provides literature synthesis addressing the importance of structural measures in flood mitigation process, different types of structural measures and their impact regarding Sri Lankan context.

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Title: Assessing Applicability of Structural Measures for Enhancing Flood Management in Sri Lanka
Authors: Rusiru Ernst
Udayangani Kulatunga
Pavithra Rathnasiri
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: ICSECM 2019
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-7221-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-7222-7

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7222-7_7

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