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Promoting green spaces for urban flood management

Susanna Tol
by Susanna Tol
Wetlands International
One Architecture
Published: 05 September 2017
Last edited: 22 March 2018
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Summary

In order to address the issue of water and flood management in Panamá the Municipality of Panama, the Dutch government and its pool of water experts and the NGO Wetlands International initiated a multi-stakeholder dialogue restoring trust of flood affected communities and planning infrastructure including urban wetland reservoirs and regulatory adjustments.

Location

Panama City, Panama

Impacts

The resulting action plan proposes an integrated set of grey and green measures to reduce the flood risk, including dikes, walls and urban wetland reservoirs (green spaces). Furthermore, it details regulatory adjustments, municipal agreements and other legal tools.

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Susanna Tol Wetlands International

Other contributors

Sander Carpay
Wetlands International Latinoamérica y el Caribe
Raisa Banfield
Municipality of the District of Panama (Panama City)

Resources

Building block: Panama Dutch Water Dialogues | PDF 492,37 KB Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction. And the role of wetland ecosystems. | PDF 1,22 MB
Links
Landscape scale Disaster Risk Reduction: Urban Water Dialogues, Panama City

Other Organizations

Municipality of the District of Panama (Panama City)
Wetlands International Panama Regional Office
Arcadis
One Architecture
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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