Australia is being urged to heed the lessons of Spain's devastating floods and make sure that warning systems and emergency response capabilities are up to tackling disasters that are becoming more frequent and more intense.
Australia is being urged to heed the lessons of Spain 's devastating floods and make sure that warning systems and emergency response capabilities are up to tackling disasters that are becoming more frequent and more intense. Spain was inundated with more than a year's worth of rain in a matter of hours on October 29, in one of the worst disasters Europe has had in decades.
"They are fundamentally rescuing themselves," says University of Technology Sydney landscape architecture professor Elizabeth Mossop, who has worked on recovery efforts after huge disasters including Hurricane Katrina. “We saw this massive mobilisation of the bush fire brigades and the Rural Fire Service, which are staffed in significant part by volunteers,” Professor Mossop says." those citizens feel like they were abandoned … people have faith that the government is going to provide these services," she says.
Another important part of the puzzle is local monitoring of things like rainfall and river levels, as official warnings are sometimes not specific enough to certain locations.Luxi Zhigu Greenway both sides of the water into the park, storage of rain flood, the formation of thousands of acres of wetland under the forest.
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