CHAPTER 8
Urban Flooding and Threats to Sustainable Development: A Study of Srinagar and Chennai Floods
Himanshu Shekhar Mishra
New Delhi Television, India
Introduction
The rise in the scale and frequency of natural disasters is increasingly threatening human life, private and public properties, and the development processes in disaster-prone zones of the world. What is more alarming is the gradual increase in climate and weather-related disaster events. A joint study by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has found that the frequency of climate- and weather-related disasters have risen significantly in the last two decades. Between 1976 and 1995, a ...
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