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China: Green infrastructure minimizes flood risk
2016-07-22 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ECNS: Recent storms in China affecting especially cities along the Yangtze River and even in the northern part of the country show current water engineering approaches are not offering enough protection from flooding disasters. It is both the failure of local flood defense systems and the lack of effective river-basin-wide management that amplify flood disasters. Indeed, around the world, people have started realizing that cities need to reinvent themselves if they are to become resilient to the effects...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical