Urban pluvial floods or rainfall-driven floods are often misrepresented as nuisance floods
and tend to receive limited attention. In India, recent urban pluvial floods have affected …

In a natural landscape, when rainfall reaches the Earth's surface, water either percolates into
the ground or it flows as run-off finally reaching a water body such as a lake or a river. Due to …

Accelerated urbanization, changes in climate and rapid increase in urban population have
several impacts on the urban hydrological cycle. Severe water stress and urban flooding are …

Urban flooding is one of the major issues in Dehradun city. Lack of preparedness and lack of
flood hazard zonation at city level resulted in increasing number of life losses every year …

A notable increase in research related to geospatial vulnerability assessment of urban
floods is observed, primarily driven by the advances in exponential technologies and …

Dehradun city, capital of Uttarakhand state in India, is severely affected with increasing
incidents of flooding, causing tremendous losses of life, infrastructure, and eroding years of …

The monsoon pattern has shifted across Kerala. This, combined with significant
deforestation and hill denuding, has resulted in catastrophic floods and landslides …

Floods in urban areas have become more frequent globally, with catastrophic impacts. The
cause is not only a natural event of extensive rain but is also artificial. The artificial cause of …

Despite the increasing number of flood studies, the interrelationships between urban form
indices (UFIs) and flood resilience (FR) have received little attention and hold miscellaneous …

Global climate change is a cause of concern as extreme events have intensified in recent
years, with increased floods and droughts also reported in the Lower Gangetic Plain (LGP) …