These range from planting mangroves to increase water catchments in high flood regions to providing low-cost risk transfer methods to farmers in developing countries.

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He was photographed wading chest high in muddy flood waters when heavy rains brought landslides and chaos to Miranda in 2010.

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Under Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, "hot spots policing" proliferated, in which officers flood high-crime areas tracked by a computer reporting system.

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