Flood hazard and damage assessment in former Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India
Journal Title: International Journal of Experimental Research and Review - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue 3
Abstract
Flood is the most common and natural phenomena of any flood prone region and damage is also very common event related to flood hazard of any magnitude. Impact of flood in any particular area is always concerned with the damage created by the flood. Flood (Damage) Impact Assessment (FIA) is a technique to assess flood impact in flood prone regions. It helps to quantify and understand the extent of a given society will compromise with damage and the extent of the said society accepts the flood event as or a hazard, such that flood can be viewed either as flood threshold limit or as flood hazard. The threshold limits to predict or indicates how far the society will take flood as an event with its corresponding damages. Jalpaiguri is a district of West Bengal, which has faced flood almost every year. This flood causes damage over the district. However, the intensities of damage vary from year to year. Analysis of the actual amount of expost damage calculation of human effect, property and environment loss is too hard. Present papers have been analysed flood damage of the district or the flood impact assessment and assess the original hazardous condition of the district in past 43 years. Its also expressed in high flood situation (1998) the block-wise damage impact assessment of flood.
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Moitrayee Das; Anis Chattopadhayay; Ranjan Basu
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