The Need for a Regional Service to Monitor Flood Hazard Events in West Africa
Walz, Yvonne, Asare-Kyei, Daniel, Von Sassen, Stella and Renaud, Fabrice G., "The Need for a Regional Service to Monitor Flood Hazard Events in West Africa" in Regional Climate Change Series: Floods ed. Adegoke, Jimmy, Sylla, Mouhamadou B., Bossa, Aymar Y., Ogunjobi, Kehinde and Adounkpe, Julien (Accra: WASCAL, 2019), 20-34.
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Author Walz, Yvonne
Asare-Kyei, Daniel
Von Sassen, Stella
Renaud, Fabrice G.Book Editor Adegoke, Jimmy
Sylla, Mouhamadou B.
Bossa, Aymar Y.
Ogunjobi, Kehinde
Adounkpe, JulienChapter Title The Need for a Regional Service to Monitor Flood Hazard Events in West Africa Book Title Regional Climate Change Series: Floods Publication Date 2019 Place of Publication Accra Publisher WASCAL Start page 20 End page 34 Language eng Abstract Flood hazard events have been reported to increase under conditions of climate change and put a heavy burden on people’s lives, livelihoods and on the economy. The overlap of frequently occurring hazards with exposed and vulnerable communities is indicating areas of highest risk and impacts due to floods. Currently, however, the information on hazard events is only collected through individual institutions with very different structures and methods regarding the data collection. This paper presents a practical experience with regards to collecting hazard event data in the West African region and discusses the need, but also the challenges of establishing a hazard event database. The collection of hazard event data in a structured and standardized manner is highly relevant to achieve an efficient and validated risk assessment on a regional level and allow well-informed initiatives towards disaster risk reduction. UNBIS Thesaurus FLOODS
WEST AFRICAKeyword Loss and damage Copyright Holder WASCAL Copyright Year 2019 Copyright type Creative commons ISBN 9789988285364 DOI 10.33183/rccs.2019.p20 -
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