Essays on Flood

Floods are natural occurring processes that are difficult to prevent but can be managed to reduce its social and economic impacts. Flooding is a threat to life and leads to damage of property. Therefore, it is very important that flooding risks be considered during any...

Summary Before the Flood is a National Geographic film starring Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who travels through various countries to meet with scientists and leaders in order to discuss the damage done by and future dangers of climate change. The movie begins when DiCaprio was...

The paper ‘Geographies of the UK flooding in 2013/4’ by Thorne (2014) was selected, as it relates to a great interest of this writer which is rivers, river flooding and the geography behind it. The paper’s context is about the flooding of the UK during...

The worst flood in nearly a century, over July-August 2018 in God’s own country, Kerala has manifold consequences. Adverse fall in demand especially in a consumption state like Kerala is the crux right now. Agriculture and tourism along with the IT sector are worst hit....

Introduction Flood is one of the main and most frequent natural disasters in the world (Jiang et al. , 2006). As revealed by World Meteorological Organization (WMO, 2014), storms and floods accounted for 79 percent of total number of disasters during 1970 to 2012, causing...