Flood Mitigation Approaches: Selected Cases Across Europe, Oceania and Asia

Flood is natural phenomenon that cannot becompletelycontrolled by man. Floodis a global problem. Even urban areas whichhave good development planning and drainage systemsare susceptible to floods. Flooding in area usually associated with poor system maintenance, failure plan system, not planned properly,and climate change factors. Typically,engineering measuresare meanttoreduce severity of flood problems theyare quite costly. Goal this paper assess the various mitigation approaches have beenused mitigate floodsacross Europe, Oceania Asia continents. Selected casestudies involvingthe North Sea flood, as well floods Netherlands, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore Malaysiawere considered.Approaches were highlighted include construction dam, breakwater, canal, pumping system. It has alsobeenfound solution methods way ofsourcecontrolis so popular be fully practiced. Hence, sustainability isactually problem flooding, especially mitigateflash often occur an areas.