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The impact of floods on life and property can be most effectively reduced by hazard mapping. Comment.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Environmental Geography

The statement is half right: hazard mapping is the foundation of flood-loss reduction, especially for property, but a map by itself saves neither lives nor buildings unless it is enforced, updated and joined to warning. “Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man.” — Gilbert Fowler White

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  • What Flood Hazard Mapping Does
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