Engineered Artificial Flooding: More Questions than Answers
Paul Humphries, Saideepa Kumar, Philip S Lake | 1 June 2015
Abstract
This paper questions the strength and relevance of some of the evidence used to justify engineered artificial floods and suggest that adopting this approach would send us down a path that is expensive and restrictive – one that allows only limited opportunities to reverse decisions should the approach prove ineffective. Lastly, the paper contends that a wider discussion of alternative strategies for ecologically effective floodplain river restoration is needed.