{"id":109134,"date":"2017-07-31T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109134"},"modified":"2017-07-31T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:49:40","slug":"benefits-of-dikes-outweigh-costs-in-flood-control-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/31\/benefits-of-dikes-outweigh-costs-in-flood-control-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of dikes outweigh costs in flood control: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109135\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/360px-Sloot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109135\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/360px-Sloot-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A well maintained ditch in the Netherlands (Photo By GerardM at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/360px-Sloot-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/360px-Sloot.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A well maintained ditch in the Netherlands (Photo By GerardM at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 1 &#8212; The economic and long-term benefits of building dikes to reduce flood damage far outweigh their initial cost on a global scale, and it is even possible to reduce the economic damage from river floods in the future to below today&#8217;s levels, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>The authors assessed how much it would cost to build and maintain these dikes, and whether the benefits would outweigh the costs using a range of hydrological and economic models.<\/p>\n<p>They found that in many parts of the world, it is even possible to reduce the economic damage from river floods in the future to below today&#8217;s levels, even when climate change, growing populations, and urbanization are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investment in flood defenses is an effective measure for a wide range of countries and this paper helps provide policymakers with the evidence they need to better protect their populations,&#8221; said Prof. Paul Bates from the University of Bristol, one of the co-authors of the study.<\/p>\n<p>The team hopes that their findings will allow for more informed dialogue on flood risk management at an international level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Aug 1 &#8212; The economic and long-term benefits of building dikes to reduce flood damage far outweigh their initial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,5927,16,17],"tags":[20162,3684,20163,2448],"class_list":["post-109134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-environment-nature","category-news","category-news-w","tag-dike","tag-flood","tag-nature-climate-change","tag-study","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-new-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}