Flood Risk Management in Nepal: A review study based on Science, Policy and CommunityYam Prasad Dhital and Rijan Bhakta Kayastha Water induced disasters such as flood, landslide, debris flow and soil erosion is increasing due to dynamic landscape, climate induced changes, lack of proper design and implementation and additional human activities against nature. Flood risk should be assessed on three levels; the operational level, a project planning level and a project design level. Least developing countries like Nepal have experience on only operational level and planning level, although there is need of urgent research on project design level. This study is based on the scientific development on flood hazard minimization, government policy for disaster risk reduction and flooding effects on vulnerable community of Nepal. This article also tries to elaborate possible techniques for local level food risk reduction and flood impact minimization during the monsoon period. Land management system and land use pattern are indicating factors to address the flood situation in respective catchment of river basin. Development of regional data base of both historical and current data is indeed essential for the future flood control mechanism. People participation on decision making process, political design and addressing solutions are the current challenging of Nepal for the flood risk management. |
