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(8058) Flood adaptation
It means to convince people in flood prone areas to learn to live with floods. Flood adaptation means developing an attitude in the people to accept flooding as a way of life when it occurs and to learn to live with it by taking individual and/or collective measures to reduce the damage from such periodical floods. It is particularly important for the people who choose or have to live in areas vulnerable to such floods and where no other structural and/or non-structural measures are totally effective and/or economically justified.

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