System · Rationale

Floodplain

Natural ecosystem comprising low-lying land adjacent to rivers or lakes that is periodically inundated, supporting flood-recession agriculture, grazing and fisheries.

Definition source: AGROVOC: floodplains

Synonyms

floodplain ecosystem

Broader

Natural ecosystem

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

System is exposed to a climate hazard, OR is acted on by a hazard-addressing intervention, OR benefits from a qualifying outcome or an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when named only as the sector or commodity of work, with no exposure and no hazard-addressing action on it.

Provenance

Restructure (v5)

Identifier

SYS_106 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/SYS_106
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/SYS_106)