Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger

Floods have recently become a major hazard in West Africa (WA) in terms of both their magnitude a...nd frequency. They affect livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, hence impacting on Sustainable Development (SD).

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09 Innovazione tecnologica per la riorganizzazione spaziale. Atti della XXIII Conferenza Nazionale SIU - Società Italiana degli Urbanisti "Downscaling, Rightsizing.Contrazione demografica e riorganizzazione spaziale. Torino, 17-18 giugno 2021

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Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger

Floods have recently become a major hazard in West Africa (WA) in terms of both their magnitude and frequency. They affect livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, hence impacting on Sustainable Development (SD). Early Warning Systems (EWS) for floods that properly address all four EWS components, while also being community and impact‐based, do not yet exist in WA. Existing systems address only the main rivers, are conceived in a top‐down manner and are hazard‐centered.

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Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment at Community Level Integrating Local and Scientific Knowledge in the Hodh Chargui, Mauritania

Hydro-climatic risk assessments at the regional scale are of little use in the risk treatment decision-making process when they are only based on local or scientific knowledge and when they deal with a single risk at a time. Local and scientific knowledge can be combined in a multi-hazard risk assessment to contribute to sustainable rural development.

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