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Understanding the types and causes of flooding helps us make sustainable decisions for the future. No matter if you believe or distrust the theory of global warming in general, there is evidence...
A poster that shows the scientific process of snowmelting
This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world. It includes practical guidance for...
This case study resulted from the experiences of 23 Cambodian villages involved in the CommunityBased Flood Mitigation and Preparedness Project (CBFMP). It focuses on lessons learned in the areas...
The 2012 Post-flood Relief and Recovery Survey is an attempt to understand the different ways that households were affected by the floods, to learn how their coping strategies are changing,...
Intense storms and a major cyclone at the end of June and early July 2007 caused severe flooding in Pakistan, displacing over 300,000 people and affecting more than 2.5 million. Balochistan and...
This synthesis report of the Roads and Floods project presents an overview of the project results including Best Practice Guidelines for integrated planning, environmental assessment and technical...
Extreme regular flooding in Nepal results in significant loss of life, property, and livelihoods (Practical Action, 2016; Bhandari et al., 2018). The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM)...
The floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 were the worst in the country’s
history. The humanitarian response achieved remarkable successes in
minimising the immediate loss of life and...