Flood risk assessment: a review
The paper reviews some of the techniques of flood risk assessment using case studies from different countries in the world. These techniques are meteorological, hydrological, hydrometeorological, socio-economic and those based on Geographic Information System (GIS). The paper concludes that GIS tech...
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Joint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)
2005-09-01
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| description | The paper reviews some of the techniques of flood risk assessment using case studies from different countries in the world. These techniques are meteorological, hydrological, hydrometeorological, socio-economic and those based on Geographic Information System (GIS). The paper concludes that GIS technique appears to be most promising as it is capable of integrating all the other techniques of flood risk assessment.
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a4a0ccb8f7547a4bea3555ce20ea6c72024-04-02T19:54:51ZengJoint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management2659-15022659-14992005-09-019110.4314/jasem.v9i1.17256Flood risk assessment: a reviewTE Ologunorisa0MJ Abawua1Department of Geography, Benue State University, Makurdi, NigeriaDepartment of Geography, Benue State University, Makurdi, NigeriaThe paper reviews some of the techniques of flood risk assessment using case studies from different countries in the world. These techniques are meteorological, hydrological, hydrometeorological, socio-economic and those based on Geographic Information System (GIS). The paper concludes that GIS technique appears to be most promising as it is capable of integrating all the other techniques of flood risk assessment. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management Vol. 9(1) 2005: 57-63https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jasem/article/view/17256 |
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