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Floods and the Poor: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to the Negative Impacts of Floods
| Date: | September 2004 |
| Type: | Reports |
| Series: | Water for All |
| ISBN: | 971-561-525-2 (print) |
| Price: |
US$25.00 (paperback) |
Description
Flood mitigation projects worldwide have tended to follow a standard, top-down, and predominantly engineering approach. This paper suggests problems with that approach, examines water-related disasters from the point of view of affected poor households, and proposes steps to help flood-prone communities prepare and cope more effectively.
This study is no. 11 in the Water for All publication series.
Contents
- ADB’s Experience
- Evolution of Approaches to Flood Control
- Flood Management, Not Crisis Management
- ADB’s Water Policy
- Flood Management: For Whom and By Whom?
- Flood Insurance
- Getting ADB’s Water Policy to Work
