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<br />Learn-Assess <br /> <br />in small headwater areas. <br /> <br />Home Learnin2 Center Back <br /> <br />MODIFYING THE IMPACTS OF FLOODING <br /> <br />Despite efforts to control flooding and to reduce <br />susceptibility to it, floods do occur; with adverse <br />consequences on individuals and communities. A <br />strategy for mitigating floodplain losses is to help <br />individuals and communities prepare for and <br />recover from floods. This can be done through <br />information dissemination and education, <br />spreading the costs of the loss over time, and <br />transferring some of the individual losses to the <br />community <br /> <br />It is not clear whether the present combination of <br />flood insurance, disaster assistance, tax <br />adjustments, and post-flood recovery practices <br />designed to implement this strategy is producing an <br />equitable sharing of the capital and operating costs <br />of floodplain occupancy among its beneficiaries, or <br />shifting the costs from the individual to the public <br />and government agencies. Neither has there been a <br />clear statement of how much, if any, of the cost of <br />floodplain development should properly be borne <br />by the general public. Some argue that all costs <br />should be borne by those occupying the floodplain; <br />others that development of the floodplain provides <br />economic benefits and, therefore, the general <br />public should shoulder them. <br /> <br />Home Learnin2 Center ~ <br /> <br />Information and Education <br /> <br />Information and education activities for floodplain <br />management have expanded dramatically since the <br />1960s, as illustrated by the number of publications, <br />technical manuals, brochures, conferences, <br />workshops, organizations, and media presentations <br />now in existence. The effectiveness of this activity <br /> <br />Page 19 of36 <br />