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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Secondly, we need to make emergency planning more rigorous and standardise it on the basis of well-chosen benchmarks. Plans need to be based on detailed but flexible scenarios so that we can anticipate what will need to be done when the next emergency strikes.