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Record W2493627854 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511974304.033

Flood hazard, floodplain policy and flood management

2011· book-chapter· en· W2493627854 on OpenAlexaff
H. S. Wheater

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Resources Planning and Management · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFlood Risk Assessment and Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlood mythFloodplainNatural hazardFlood risk managementGeographyHazardFluvialFlood mitigation100-year floodInvestment (military)Water resource managementHydrology (agriculture)Environmental scienceCartographyMeteorologyEngineeringPolitical scienceStructural basinGeologyArchaeology

Abstract

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Introduction Floods are one of the world's most damaging and dangerous natural hazards. Jonkman (2005) estimated that, in the last decade of the twentieth century, fluvial and other drainage-related floods killed 100 000 and affected 1.4 billion people. Economic losses from floods are difficult to estimate precisely, but are large and increasing. Barredo (2009) estimated annual average losses for Europe to be $3.8 billion over the period 1970–2006 (at 2006 values), and UNESCO (2009) noted that losses from extreme events rose 10-fold between the 1950s and 1990s in real terms. Flood protection and flood management are therefore seen as important issues by society, and associated infrastructure and management systems represent large and ongoing investment (in the UK, annual expenditure on flood defence is of the order of £800 million). However, flood risk management is a complex and multi-faceted issue. Floods are part of the natural functioning of fluvial systems. This has important implications. Firstly, to understand flood response and to manage flood risk, there is a need for awareness of the nature of and controls on catchment response, including the effects of human interventions. Secondly, floods are essential for the maintenance of aquatic and riparian habitats, and hence a holistic assessment of flood management is necessary, including broader environmental considerations such as geomorphological and hydro-ecological aspects. There may therefore be tensions between the need to protect infrastructure and risk to life on the one hand and the need to maintain natural ecosystem function on the other.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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