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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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Noida, India 2017
Subjects:	FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT GANGES BASIN RIVER BASINS RAINFALL RISK EXPOSURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/151521490359209544/Final-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26429

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spelling	okr-10986-264292021-05-25T08:59:12Z Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia World Bank FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT GANGES BASIN RIVER BASINS RAINFALL RISK EXPOSURE 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. 2017-04-24T16:27:55Z 2017-04-24T16:27:55Z 2016-05 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/151521490359209544/Final-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26429 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Noida, India Economic & Sector Work :: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Economic & Sector Work South Asia Bangladesh India
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description	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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title	Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
title_short	Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
title_full	Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
title_fullStr	Flood Risk Assessment for the Ganges Basin in South Asia
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