The increasing risk of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa

The increasing risk of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa / Godwell Nhamo, Lazarus Chapungu, editors.

This volume discusses the increasing occurrence of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa over the last few years. The book discusses existing flood and tornado management protocols, indigenous approaches to mitigate disaster risk, urban and peri-urban flooding, tornado-induced flooding and windsto...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nhamo, Godwell (Editor), Chapungu, Lazarus (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Sustainable development goals series.
Subjects:
Floods > Africa, Southern.
Flood control > Africa, Southern.
Tornadoes > Africa, Southern.
Hazard mitigation > Africa, Southern.
Natural disasters.
sciences (philosophy)
natural disasters.
Flood control
Floods
Hazard mitigation
Tornadoes
Southern Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction and background. Contextualising the increasing risk of floods and tornadoes
  • Part II. Flood modelling, early warning and partnerships. Satellite-based approaches in the detection and monitoring of selected hydrometeorological disasters
  • ICT readiness for flood risk reduction and management : lessons from Eastern Cape Provinces Port St Johns municipality, South Africa
  • A reflection of hydrological and other emerging perspectives of Lake Karibas Operation Noah
  • Victoria Falls water flow regimes : a tale of two half-centuries
  • Part III. Urban flooding and insurance matters. Hotel management under increasing and more intense floods : a focus on the Centurion Hotel, South Africa
  • Rethinking harbours, beaches and urban estuaries waste management under climate-induced floods in South Africa
  • The need for effective storm water management to build flood resilient communities : a case of Port St Johns, South Africa
  • Impacts of cyclones Idai and Kenneth and the 2019 floods on the insurance sector in South Africa and Mozambique
  • Part IV. Challenges from rural flooding. Exploring the migration effects of cyclones and floods in Southern Africa : a focus on 2019 floods and cyclones Idai and Kenneth
  • Impact of floods on access to drinking water : a focus on 2019 floods in Magalasi Village in Chikwawa District, Malawi
  • Vulnerability of settlements to floods in South Africa : a focus on Port St Johns
  • Impacts of floods on livestock production in Port St Johns, South Africa
  • Part V. Increasing risk of tornadoes. Characterisation and analysis of emerging localised severe storms in Malawi : how common are tornadoes?
  • Characterisation and impacts of tornado-induced flooding and windstorms in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
  • Part VI. The policy space. Emerging key findings, conclusions and policy recommendations.

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