Mission
- Floodlist want to bring to people’s attention the risks and devastation posed by floods and flooding.
- It hopes to help people understand more about floods, and what they can do to prepare, protect themselves, get insured, and stay safe.
- To discuss flooding issues from the persepective of the people who are involved and who are affected.
- Its outlook is global. Although the main base is in Europe, it has contacts, contributors and writers based around the world, and it aims to include flooding news from all countries and continents.
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The Ethiopian Government is seeking to mitigate severe effects of recurrent flooding with the planned construction of new dams. The decision to build the dams comes just a few months after flash floods displaced tens of thousands of people in Africa’s third most populous country. Close to 194,000 people were displaced by Belg rainy season flooding.
Scientists project that sea level rise will pose a significant challenge to coastal cities across the world over the next century and beyond, and the city of Vancouver is no exception. Sea levels there are expected to rise one metre by 2100. Vancouver, therefore, has been planning and preparing for the impacts of sea level rise across the city over the last few years.
Cultural heritage plays an important role in the lives and socio-economic well-being of communities - losses could therefore impact negatively on livelihoods, long after the immediate effects of a disaster. Fifty years on from the Florence Flood of 1966, it is appropriate to examine the current status of the protection of cultural heritage assets from natural disasters.
A new, independent report launched today in the UK will help people better protect their homes and businesses from risk of flooding and recover more quickly. The Property Flood Resilience Action Plan is the result of collaboration between central government, the Environment Agency, insurers, surveyors, materials producers, the legal profession and flood action groups.
Coastal defences could be designed to better withstand powerful storms triggered by climate change, a study of wave dynamics suggests. A research team has developed a way to predict how big waves act when they collide with cliffs, seawalls and buildings. Their findings could help engineers design coastal defences and help limit loss of life and damage to property.
In Benin, areas previously not considered vulnerable to flooding were inundated, affecting more than two-thirds of the country - over 680,000 people in 51 out of 77 communes were impacted. One of the weak points identified in the overwhelmed institutional disaster management framework was that of very poor communication between agencies - now all under one umbrella.
New district-level mapping of flood-prone areas was achieved in Bihar in August 2016 with the help of PALSAR radar, which has the capability to map flooding in all kinds of weather and at all times of the day. Flood maps illustrating village-level inundations can support Bihar State Disaster Management Authority in several of its community-level risk reduction activities.
Similar to Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in the UK, the concept of Low Impact Development (LID) was introduced in the United States as an alternative to conventional stormwater management practices. The basic concept is to model nature and manage rainfall at its source, through runoff prevention and mitigation strategies, and treatment controls to remove pollutants.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.