Managing Floods in the Tropics
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Managing Floods in the Tropics

Assess the hard and soft engineering strategies used to mitigate flood risks. Evaluate the sustainability and effectiveness of these management strategies in cities like Singapore.

MOE Syllabus OutcomesSEAB Syllabus 8813 Theme 1: Climate Change and FloodingLearning Outcome 2.3: Evaluate flood management strategies

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Assess the hard and soft engineering strategies used to mitigate flood risks. Evaluate the sustainability and effectiveness of these management strategies in cities like Singapore.

Key Questions

  1. What are the traditional hard engineering methods for flood management?
  2. How do soft engineering approaches provide alternative flood mitigation?
  3. How sustainable are current flood management strategies in highly urbanised areas?

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