Sustainability Approach in the Context of Flood Risk Management
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The current policy-making on EU level in the field of water resource conservation and flood risk management displays tendency in applying sustainability approach for water status improvement, water scarcity and droughts, as well as reduction of disasters. The appearance of floods as natural disasters is associated mainly with community vulnerability to adverse effects of a natural hazard. Therefore, reducing vulnerability is a key element in flood risk management. Finding the proper approach, which could embrace the interconnected elements in a system, such as human society and the surrounding nature, is more than necessary. Currently, the prevalent method worldwide for flood management is oriented towards the so called “hard engineering” measures, including dams, channelization, etc. Therefore, it is critically to consider expanding the current measures including natural water retention measures for flood control, measures against erosion along the river catchment, afforestation, etc. In this paper the opportunities for the enforcement of sustainability flood risk management approach in the country will be analyzed. Suggestions for improvement will be presented as a conclusion.
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