Frequently Asked Questions

This section provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Integrated Flood Management and indicates additional resources available on the website, including the Database Reference Centre, for more in-depth information.

Policy and Planning for flood management

How does participatory planning work for flood emergency planning?

How can individual projects be designed and implemented within the framework of a basin management plan?

What is the difference between environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA)?

Why do we need Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for flood management projects?

When is cost-effectiveness analysis used as forms of economic analysis?

How does economic analysis help decision-making in flood management?

What can be the causes of conflicts within a river basin?

What are the different types of conflict in the context of flood management? How can they be avoided?

How can public policies that may appear to be disconnected with floods be factored in the flood policy?

What human factors contribute to flooding?

Risk management for flood

How does flood insurance serve as a useful tool to deal with residual risks of flooding?

How can the society benefit from greater flood risk awareness?

How can land use planning help reduce flood risks?

How dose rural vulnerability differ from urban vulnerability?

What are the factors that make a community vulnerable?

What are the beneficial impacts of floods?

What are the negative social impacts of flooding?

What is flood risk?

Stakeholders Participation in Integrated Flood Management

What precautions need to be undertaken during stakeholder engagement?

What are the different stakeholder engagement approaches?

How to identify stakeholders?

Who should be engaged in participatory decision making?

What are the benefits of stakeholder participation?

Community Participation in Flood Management

What is the relationship between the level of flood risks and people’s awareness about it?

How can local communities at the village level work for flood emergency preparedness ?

How can the affected communities share the cost of risk reduction?

How can communities organise themselves during flood emergency?

What role can river basin organizations (RBOs) play in integrated flood management?

How can community-based organizations (CBOs) play a role in flood management?

How can the society benefit from greater flood risk awareness?

Environment and Economics Aspects of Flood Management

Why is economic analysis essential?

What are the tools other than the traditional cost-benefit analysis for making financial decisions?

What are public catastrophe funds?

How does the use of flood plains to help reduce poverty?

What are the major challenges of assessment of benefits from flood management projects?

What are the differences between financial and economic analysis?

Why is economic analysis essential?

What is Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)?

What are the factors that make a community vulnerable?

What are the beneficial impacts of floods?

How does economic analysis help decision-making in flood management?

What human factors contribute to flooding?

Economic Terms for Flood Management

How does public participation in decision-making help cost-benefit analysis (CBA)/ multi-criteria analysis (MCA)?

What are the major shortcomings of multi-criteria analysis (MCA)?

How can sensitivity analysis deal with uncertainties surrounding projects in the flood management sector?

What is the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project in term of the Net Present value (NPV)?

What is Net Present value (NPV)? How is it calculated?

Why is the use of discount rate in cost-benefit analysis (CBA)?

What is hedonic pricing? How can the adverse effect of flood on house or land values be estimated by hedonic pricing?