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Beyond just floodwater

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Flooding, already the largest hazard facing humankind, is becoming more frequent and affecting more people. Adapting to flooding must consider more than just water to encapsulate the effects of sediment movement, re-imagine flooding through a sociogeomorphic lens and expand approaches to knowing about floods.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Jack and Richard Threet chair in Sedimentary Geology (J.B.), a Canadian NSERC Discovery Grant (P.A.) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S015817/1) (S.E.D.) for funding that enabled our collaboration on this research perspective. We are grateful to K. Cook, P. Best and R. Wilson for discussions.

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Jim Best

  2. Department of Geography and GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Jim Best

  3. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Jim Best

  4. Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Jim Best

  5. Department of Geography and Environment, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

    Peter Ashmore

  6. Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Stephen E. Darby

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Best, J., Ashmore, P. & Darby, S.E. Beyond just floodwater. Nat Sustain 5, 811–813 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00929-1

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