Flood management strategies aim to protect people and property from flood impacts, reduce flood risk, and monitor floods through various methods. Hard engineering methods use structural approaches like dams and levees. Soft engineering employs river basin management techniques such as floodplain zoning and restoration. The document outlines key flood management strategies used worldwide and their purposes.

1. FLOOD MANAGEMENT
Lesson Outcomes
 To have an overview of different flood
management strategies used in different parts of
the world.
 To understand the purposes of flood management.
 To evaluate some of the strategies used.

14. KEY IDEAS
 What are the aims of flood management?
 Protection of people & property from the damaging
impacts of floods
 Alleviation (reduction) of the flood risk
 Monitoring, research, forecasting & warning
 There are 2 main groups of strategies: -
 Hard engineering (structural) methods: e.g. water
storage dams, river channel modifications,
embankments (levees)
 Soft engineering (river basin management): e.g flood
abatement, flood plain zoning (managed retreat), river
restoration