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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Secondly, we need to make emergency planning more rigorous and standardise it on the basis of well-chosen benchmarks. Europe is not well protected against flooding.