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Bio-dykes: Working with nature to reduce flood losses

Abstract

The Terai plains in Nepal are inhabited by indigenous communities farming soils enriched by annual floods. Climate change is making these floods more destructive. The combination of increasing intensity of monsoon rains and glacial retreat in the Himalayas increases the risk of more frequent and catastrophic floods impacting these communities.

Further Information

Collections Climate Change
Issue Date October 2021
Format Case Study
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