FLOOD HAZARD MAPPING OF SELECTED WATERSHEDS ACROSS THE KARNALI, MAHAKALI AND RAPTI RIVER BASINS
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- Technical Reports
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- USAID Paani Program
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- NATURE’S CONSERVATION PVT. LTD.
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- USAID Paani Program
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- As a country, Nepal is highly prone to natural disasters due to steep, high-relief slopes, complex geology with active tectonic processes, frequent seismic activity, and excessive seasonality in climate. These risk factors are exacerbated by Nepal’s climate change vulnerability, which ranks 4th in the world, according to the Global Climate Risk Index, which assesses the impacts of meteorological events in relation to economic losses and human fatalities (Eckstein et al., 2019). Nepal also ranks 30th in the world and 2nd in South Asia in terms of flood risk (UNDP, 2009 & MoHA, 2015). Overall, more than 80% of the population is exposed to the risk of natural hazards (MoHA, 2017), which include droughts, floods, earthquakes, landslides, extreme temperatures, and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
