The Mahanadi Delta in Orissa has experienced several severe floods causing huge damages to life and property. An analysis of earlier historic flood events clearly revels that even after construction of Hirakud Dam; the peak floods in the deltaic regi...
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With 70% of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is highly exposed to riverine and coastal flooding. This paper conducts a
The intervention of social protection programs, such as Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), could help poor households arrange coping strategies in dealing with natural disasters. PKH is a conditional cash program for poor households, and includes traditional labor in the coastal city of Pekalongan, ...
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Flood management in India: a focussed review on the current status and future challenges Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduc., 49 (2020), Article 101660, 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101660 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Mudi et al., 2022 S. Mudi, J.P. A, P. Das Flood hazard mappi...
Nepal and India: Landslides and FloodsInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)2014 Available from https://www.ifrc.org/docs/Appeals/rpts14/IBNPINls030814.pdf(open in a new window)Accessed: December 21, 2014 (Open in a new window)Google Scholar KhanalNRGurung...
R ivers are important to the development of human societies and are the cradles of major prehistoric cultures around the world (e.g., the Huanghe River of China, the Nile River of Egypt, the Indus River of India, and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of Mesopotamia). Yet at the same time...
Scientific projections affirm that risks of flooding will increase considerably in the main river basins of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In Bangladesh, a rapid shift in extent and depth of flooding will occur with a global mean temperature rise of 2.6 °C above pre-industrial levels. Wide ...
The Tibetan Plateau has a slight wet anomaly in July; indeed, some of the affected region lies in the YRB and so would have contributed to the down- stream flooding. Other regions show a strong dry anomaly. The north of India, particularly in July, shows a pronounced dry anom- aly over...