Talk:Flood management

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Section sizes

Section size for Flood management (43 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	2,903	2,903
Terminology	6,375	6,375
Causes of flooding	660	2,731
Precipitation, absorption, and runoff	93	93
Flood levels: blunting the peak	1,978	1,978
Purposes	1,016	9,158
Reducing the impacts of floods	918	918
Protection of individual properties	1,532	1,532
Protection of communities	851	851
Protection of wider areas such as towns or cities	1,302	1,302
Strategic retreat	1,754	1,754
Resilience	1,703	1,703
Climate change adaptation	82	82
Structural methods	603	9,356
Dams	1,387	1,387
Diversion canals	60	60
Floodplains and groundwater replenishment	923	923
River defenses	1,195	1,195
Coastal defenses	716	716
Flood barrier	62	601
Self-closing flood barrier	539	539
Temporary perimeter barriers	3,871	3,871
Non-structural methods	65	12,355
Flood risk assessment	4,055	4,055
Flood mapping	2,050	2,050
Flood modelling	4,321	4,321
Stakeholder engagement	1,864	1,864
Costs	492	492
Examples by country	27	15,532
North America	73	4,978
Canada	1,190	1,190
United States	3,715	3,715
Asia	3,485	3,485
Africa	166	166
Europe	13	4,251
France	486	486
United Kingdom	1,170	1,170
Russia	318	318
The Netherlands	2,264	2,264
Oceania	2,625	2,625
See also	557	557
References	36	36
External links	331	331
Total	59,826	59,826

On 30 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Flood control to Flood management. The result of the discussion was moved.