PLANNING DIMENSIONS OF FLOOD RISKS MANAGEMENT IN ALGERIA’S URBAN AREAS.

Abstract

Abstract: This paper addresses a very important topic at the moment, it is the Planning mechanisms to manage inundation risks in urban areas, through a planning vision that balances need with available means, according to the planning scientific dimensions and foundations and based on natural variables and socio-economic. As natural variables constitute the basic basis for receiving and absorbing the urban project While socio-economic variables represent the actives elements and activated of the space operations.  They must therefore be adapted to natural variables, especially environmental variables, in order to avoid many of the damage caused by the abuse of these elements, Identifying the mechanisms necessary to activate the work of urban schemes in the management of natural risks, particularly the risk of flood, In addition to a legal approach aimed at tracking the various areas of intervention of the Reconstruction Act and the inundation Risk Prevention Act and the various executive decrees attached thereto.