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Flood
A flood is an overflow of a body of water (rive, lake) that submerges land or the abnormal accumulation of water on the surface due to excess rainfall and rise of the groundwater level above surface on impermeable or saturated terrains. source: CRED
Fiji declares 15 day state of disaster
3 Feb 2012, UNISDR
'These types of events are likely to continue to occur. ...In the interim, improved preparedness and early warning, two important elements of disaster risk reduction, will have to remain important and urgent priorities,' notes Angelika Planitz, UNISDR’s Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Pacific...
- Georisque 2012: Risques naturels sur les littoraux14-15 Feb 2012, Morocco (El Jadida)
- CIWEM international event - water management in Europe22-23 Feb 2012, France (Lille)
- Second national flood workshop27 Feb - 01 Mar 2012, United States of America (Houston)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- Specialization certificate in geological and climate related riskUNIGE, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Erasmus Mundus MSc in flood risk managementUPC; TU Dresden; UNESCO-IHE; Univ of Ljubljana, Delft , Dresden, Barcelona and Ljubljana
Evidence, monthly UNISDR newsletter: issue 04, January 20122012, UNISDR
HRI 2011 focus on Pakistan: lessons from the floods2011, Dev Assistance Research Assoc
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2011Jan 2012, Munich Re
Estimated risk index for multiple hazards in AsiaJun 2011, OCHA-ROAP
- Counting disaster: Who's dying where?2011, BBC
- ID Risques, un podcast radio sur les risques majeurs2011, IDEAL Connaissances; MEDDTL, France - gov
- Weather hastened Haiti quake - experts2011, AlertNet
Human Exposure - Absolute exposure to flood
| Countries | People exposed per year
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| 1 | Bangladesh | 19,279,960 |  |
| 2 | India | 15,859,640 | |
| 3 | China | 3,972,502 | |
| 4 | Viet Nam | 3,403,041 | |
| 5 | Cambodia | 1,765,674 | |
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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Number of flood occured (reported)
| Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database |
- Area coordinatorPakistan (North Sindh, Kamkot), ACTED
- Director, programme qualityAfghanistan (Kabul / Roving), Afghanaid
- Programme manager, response preparednessChad (N’Djamena), NLRC
External Online Resources on Flood
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- DIPECHO DRR Partner Platform in SE Africa and the SW Indian Ocean
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Education for hazards
- FAO: Climate and flood forecast applications in agriculture
- FLOODsite: Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
- HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk)
- Humanitarian Early Warning Service - global multi-hazard watch service to support humanitarian preparedness
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- International Charter: Space and major disaster activation maps
- inTERRAgate
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction
- Martinique: risques et nuisances (in French)
- Natural disaster awareness tool catalogue
- OIKOS: interactive game and information on hazard impact, mechanism, mitigation and simulation (in many languages)
- PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform
- Rede social Arca de Noé (in Portuguese)
- Riverbank erosion and flood in Kazipur, Bangladesh
- SATCA: Early warning system for Central America
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Swedish Natural Hazards Information System
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UN-Water
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- Water management in Taiwan
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