Flooding: Management and risk mitigation

Abstract

Virginia Smith, a water resource engineer and researcher focused on flooding dynamics, asked in her 2021 TED talk, “Have you or a loved one ever been affected by flooding?… Chances are…you, or someone you know, has been impacted by flooding. There’s a powerless feeling in a flood. You can’t stop the rivers from rising. But for the first time [in history], we’re in a place where we can shift the power paradigm of flooding” (Smith 2021).