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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
Neglected 'everyday' disasters fuel rising losses for poorest
22 May 2013, AlertNet
'People's own determination to get out of poverty should be matched by our commitment to redistribute risk and build equality, thereby supporting them to thrive and prosper, rather than just cope and survive in a world of increasing risks,' Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wrote in a foreword to the Views from the Frontline report...
- 7th International conference on river basin management22-24 May 2013, United Kingdom (Ashurst, Southampton)
- 7th International conference on river basin management22-24 May 2013, United Kingdom (Southampton)
- 3rd climate change technology conference27-29 May 2013, Canada (Montreal)
- Master of disaster management and risk governanceUni Bonn, Germany (Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler)
- PhD in Risk and Emergency Management (REM)IUSS, Italy (Pavia)
- Política y economía en la reducción del riesgo de desastres (RRD) The political economy of disaster risk reduction (DRR)FIU
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
Disaster management: engineering and environmental aspects2013
The role of ecosystems in disaster risk reduction2013, UNU
Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention2013, PHE, United Kingdom - gov; WHO - Europe
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2012Jan 2013, Munich Re
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2011Jan 2012, Munich Re
- Big river rising: Interactive exploration of flooding in the Philippines2012, CA
- Counting disaster: Who's dying where?2011, BBC
- ID Risques, un podcast radio sur les risques majeurs2011, IDEAL Connaissances; MEDDTL, France - gov
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 |
External Online Resources on Flood
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- DARA: Climate vulnerability monitor
- DIPECHO DRR Partner Platform in SE Africa and the SW Indian Ocean
- Disaster Report: recent natural disasters list
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Education for hazards
- European climate adaptation platform CLIMATE-ADAPT
- 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)
- National Disaster Management Authority of India guidelines: multiple hazards, capacity development, information and risk management
- Natural disaster awareness tool catalogue
- OIKOS: interactive game and information on hazard impact, mechanism, mitigation and simulation (in many languages)
- Pangeo project - Geological information in support of global monitoring for environment and security
- PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform
- Projet ANR COCORISCO: COnnaissance, COmpréhension et gestion des RISques Côtiers
- 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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