Despite the situation being continuously exacerbated by climate change and unplanned urbanisation, most vulnerable of the 1.81 billion flood affected persons fail to get prioritised under risk reduction programs due to skewed selection criteria. The study Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries – an article published recently in Nature Communications by Jun Rentschler, […]
Climate change
Climate change induced flood in Uttarakhand
The USDMA team suggests intermittent damming as being the cause of devastating winter season flooding of Dhauliganga river on February 7, 2021.