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Managed Retreat from the Floodplain – Lessons from USA case studies and what it might mean for Australia?

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What dos over 100 years of 30 managed retreat from the floodplain in the USA tell us? Nichols Pinter from Unibersity of California, Davis takes us on a guided historic tour of what has been possible - with both the good and the poor highlighted.

House design to deal with flood impacts – March 18, 2014

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Dr James Davidson is an architect with an interest in housing design in flood impacted parts of the world. James is a Churchill Fellow who recently travelled to the USA, UK and the Netherlands to gain knowledge in best practice flood-resilient housing.