[MCN] Is this time the time to get serious about floodplain management?

[Lance Olsen]

Less talk, more action: It's time to get serious about floodplain management <http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/>
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/ <http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/>

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... the National Flood Insurance Program is no longer solvent and hasn’t been for over a decade – and climate change promises to make flooding and storm damages worse.

As it was in 1993, the problem is not lack of understanding on how to manage floodplains and associated watersheds. It is a problem of will and organization.

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“The changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.” (Sole. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007)

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