Land use conversion is a general term for large scale geographic change. Afforestation is one such land conversion in which trees are planted on pr...

Naturally occurring sand dunes are wind-formed sand deposits representing a store of sediment in the zone just landward of normal high tides. Artif...

Beach nourishment is an adaptation technology primarily used in response to shoreline erosion, although flood reduction benefits may also occur. It...

A bioretention area is a stormwater treatment system that is a depression integrated into the landscape. A bioretention area captures runoff from a...

Bypass channel, also known as a flood-relief channel, is an artificially made waterway constructed in order to protect urban and rural agricultural...

Canals and rills are open surface water channels with hard edges. They are simply channels that water flows along whereby they can have a variety o...

This activity involves techniques to resolve the issues created by culverted watercourses. This is predominantly through deculverting, or ‘daylight...

A fascine is a bundle of sticks or brushwood used in construction, generally to strengthen an earthen structure, fill ditches, or make a path acros...

Filter strips are gently sloping, vegetated strips of land that provide opportunities for slow conveyance and infiltration (where appropriate). The...

Floating agriculture is a way of utilising areas which are waterlogged for long periods of time in the production of food. The technology is mainly...

Flood detention reservoir, also known as an attenuation or balancing or flood control reservoir or detention basin, collects water at times of ve...

Hydraulic Fill is fill in which the materials are deposited by a flowing stream of water. This fill material will originate from a borrow area or d...

Improving the soil infiltration capacity means improving the permeability of the soil. If the infiltration capacity of the soil is increased, more ...

The main objective of land claim is neither erosion nor storm reduction. The aim of land claim is instead, to create new land from areas that were ...

Managed realignment or managed retreat allows an area that was not previously exposed to flooding by the sea to become flooded by removing coastal ...

The central concept for the revised water safety policy is formed by 'multi-layer safety'. In this concept safety is assured through multiple layer...

Ένα δίκτυο εσωτερικής ναυσιπλοΐας εστιάζει κυρίως στη διασύνδεση των υδάτινων σωμάτων που βρίσκονται σε κοντινές αποστάσεις. Συνδέοντάς τα, με υπόγ...

A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments (barriers) known as dikes that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it ha...

A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake. They may arise naturally in floodplains as p...

One option for creating additional water storage facilities is storing in underground crates. This is a hidden technology that fits the criteria of...

River training refers to the structural measures which are taken to improve a river and its banks. River training is an important component in the ...

A swale is a low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy. The term can refer to a natural landscape feature or a human-created one. A...

An urban forest is a forest or a collection of trees that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense it may include any kind of woody p...

A wetland (Natural or Constructed/Artificial) is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on ...