Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
The chapter wise synopsis of the report is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its objectives. It also provides the reader with an understanding of key concepts related to t...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Noida, India
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/151521490359209544/Final-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26429 |
| Summary: | The chapter wise synopsis of the report
is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the
reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its
objectives. It also provides the reader with an
understanding of key concepts related to the project.
Chapter two: describes exposure data collection and
management, including the following: the data sources and
the methodology for exposure data management; and exposure
data development for demographic data, general building
stocks, essential facilities, and transportation systems and
discusses their valuation. Chapter three: provides details
of the Flood Hazard Assessment, including the following:
provides details on data availability required for flood
assessment; provides initial results of the hydraulic model,
development, calibration, and validation; and flood hazard
mapping for the probabilistic events of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50,
and 100-years. Chapter four: provides details of the risk
assessment methodology. This includes: methodology for
vulnerability functions (depth-damage function) development
for various exposure classes viz. buildings, infrastructure,
and agriculture etc; and methodology for loss calculation
for various types of exposures. Chapter five: provides
details on the findings of the risk assessment task at
basin-level. Chapter six: provides details on the findings
of the risk assessment task at each of the 18 sub-basins of
the Ganges Basin. Chapter seven: provides the conclusions
and recommendations based on the findings of the risk
assessment study as a part of this assignment along with the
areas to improve the study. In addition to the main report,
RMSI is also providing the Ganges Basin Risk Atlas, a
compendium of the main risk maps at the basin and sub-basin levels. |
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