Lessons Learned from the Lorestan Flood Crisis: Relief Experience in Pol-e-Dokhtar Flood

Making Benefit Estimation Useful: Lessons from Flood Control Experience

It is hereby recognized that the destructive floods upon the rivers of the United States, upsetting orderly processes and causing loss of life and property, including the erosion of lands, and impairing and obstructing of navigation, highways, railroads, and other channels of commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of the Congress that flood co...

Lessons Learned from the AIDS Crisis in Lordegan, Iran in 2019

AIDS is an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome caused by the HIV virus (1, 2). AIDS is amongst the major challenges of the health system in all countries. This health challenge has spread to all countries as well as to all age groups, especially the 25-34 age group. The probability of transmission of AIDS ranges from 70% by blood transfusion to 30% by sexual intercourse, mother-to-child transmis...

Lessons Learned on Land Management Policy from the 1998 Changjiang River Flood

The 1998 flood had smaller peak discharges than of the 1954 flood (largest flood in the 20 century) at most gauging stations in the middle and lower reaches, but resulted in higher peak stages. One of the reasons of this higher water stages is the decrease in the surface area and storage capacity of natural lakes due to the excess impoldering agricultural land and sedimentation. However, there ...

Introducing the Flood Vulnerability Index (FVI) as a flood crisis management tool

Background and objective: Floods are among the most dangerous natural disasters that causes loss of life and property every year. The destructive effects of floods are more documentedو due to climate change and increasing economic and social development. Social and infrastructural vulnerabilities have also increased due to human settlement adjacent to river floodplains. Therefore, to prevent mo...

U. K. Flood-Relief Supplies to India

Servants of India Society Flood Relief Fund

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Dear Sir,?The heavy losses suffered by the people of Cuttack and Pari Districts owing to heavy floods and breaches in the several embankments in the said areas this month have called for sympathy from all quarters. Hundreds of homes have been swept away, thousands of people are now without shelter. Their agricultural lands have been mostly covered with ...