The integrated flood risk management (IFRM) approach incorporates social, economic, financial, environmental, and institutional aspects, as well as engineering, disaster preparedness, insurance and emergency response requirements. IFRM rests on the principle that land use planning and water management should combine structural and nonstructural measures to manage water and achieve flood mitigation together with other benefit. The general concept of IFRM is a simple one. The scale of flood risk in many countries is now so great that no one individual solution, such as the erection of flood wall, will provide a suitable level of resilience. Furthermore, single-solution approaches can also be very damaging and counter-productive with respect to long term flood risk (e.g. leading to sedimentation, deforestation, mangrove deterioration) and they often only benefit the few. It is now widely accepted that the development of sustainable, long term flood resilience requires a management strategy that incorporates and combines a whole range of solutions. This “many baskets, many eggs” approach is generally the only way to manage risk in highly vulnerable countries, especially as climate change evolves. It also helps to mitigate the impact of any one component failing.