Urban and Rural Flood Adaptation and Its Planning Application in Floodplains
Humanity's struggle with floods has revolved around living near water bodies and attempting to prevent and control inundations.With the expected increase of floods in the future due to global climate change and ac-knowledging the rising uncertainty of weather phenomena,humans should learn to cope with natural floods.Gilbert F.White's flood adjustment approach,which is used in floodplain management,can harmonize the relationship between humans and floods by regulating people's development behavior in floodplains and adjusting the man-agement of land use and the flood resistance standard of buildings in such areas so as to alleviate flood disasters and promote the coordinated development of the economy,society,and environment in these areas.The US,EU,France,and the Netherlands have formulated relevant policies and implemented practices under the guidance of White's principles.In recent years,flood resilience theory and resilience planning have become the focus of flood management.However,flood adjustment still has some limitations,such as lack of independence,lack of com-prehensiveness and systematization,limited application scenarios,unresolved contradiction with human survival and development needs,and an insufficient spatial scale,necessitating further research and verification.Cities in the floodplains of China should learn to harmoniously coexist with floods and thus achieve ecological environmental protection and sustainable development through flood adaptation planning of urban-rural integration.
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