Conclusion
The problem of organizing protection of territories and prevention or minimization of losses from floods and freshets affecting the interests of people in practically all regions of the world should be solved on the basis of the combined use of all means of protection, both engineering and nonengineering, on the basis of consideration of the interests of the development of society without any substantial disturbances of the environment.
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Translated from Gidrotechnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 4, pp. 4–8, April, 1991.
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Avakyan, A.B., Polyushkin, A.A. Estimation of flood losses. Hydrotechnical Construction 25, 181–185 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01423631
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