BIO-DYKES: WORKING WITH NATURE TO REDUCE FLOOD LOSSES
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Authors
McQuistan, Colin
Rana, Bikram
Shrestha, Krity
Uprety, Dharam R.
Acharya, Sunil
Issue Date
2021-10
Type
Language
en
Keywords
Climate Change , Disasters , Natural Resource Management
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Abstract
The Terai plains in Nepal are inhabited by indigenous communities farming soils enriched by annual floods. Climate change is making these floods more destructive. The combination of increasing intensity of monsoon rains and glacial retreat in the Himalayas increases the risk of more frequent and catastrophic floods impacting these communities.