An increasing trend of urban floods in India from past several years causes major damages on Indian cities. By 2050, more than half of the population in the developing countries like India are expected to migrate to urban regions. Urbanization is triggered in developing countries as people migrate...
In India, every year heavy losses are witnessed in one or the other state e.g. in 2013, heavy rainfall with cloudburst in Kedarnath and 2014 floods in Srinagar resulted heavy loss of life and property because of inadequate capacity of rivers to carry the high flood discharge, inadequate ...
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This chapter offers a diverse perspective on seasonal floods and provides an understanding of how communities and institutions respond, learn and recover from these disasters. In the case of recurring floods, learning and experience from previous floods
Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs), the sudden release of water from glacier or moraine-dammed lakes, are important natural hazards due to the sudden release of large volumes of water, often causing greater discharges than conventional floods in the same catchment (Walder and Costa, 1998; Dus...
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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...
(Centra1),Aizawl796004 Mizoram,India Received:June15,2013/Accepted:July20,2013/Published:August25,2013 Abstract:Climateinduceddisasterssuchascloudbursttriggeredflashfoods.debris-flow.massmovementsandlandslidesarevery commonphenomenonintheHimalaya.Therearemanyinstancesintherecentpastwhenthesecatastrophescausedheavy...
Floods cause great damage to ecosystems and are among the main agents of soil erosion. Given the importance of soils for the functioning of ecosystems and development and improvement of bio-economic conditions, the risk and rate of soil erosion was assessed using the RUSLE model in Iran’s Lore...
causing immense damage and accounting for a large number of deaths world-wide. Good flood management policies play an extremely important role in preventing floods. It is well known that China has more than 5000 years of experience in flood management policy beginning with the reign of Da...