Despite massive investments and continuous flood-control efforts in India, the socio-
economic damages and death toll continue to remain high. Undoubtedly, the process of …

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 …

The increasing number of pluvial floods due to extreme climatic events or poor maintenance
of the drainage networks urge for assessing the performance of the urban drainage system …

Nature-based solutions, such as reviving blue-green infrastructure (BGI), for climate
adaptation in cities have been gaining global attention. In the case of India, the rapid …

Millions of people in Indian sub-continent are affected by floods, which have increased
during the past decades and likely to increase further in response to warming climate …

Flood is the most common natural disaster upsetting the highest population of the world. In
recent times, severe floods in urban areas are occurring more frequently owing to …

Flood is among the deadliest disasters in India, and the frequency of floods and extreme
precipitation events is projected to increase under the warming climate. The frequency of …

Urban green spaces play a range of significant roles and have a positive influence on the
quality of life in cities. Shanghai, a major economic and financial center in China, has set its …

Floods in the Indian subcontinent have affected habitat, population, economy, etc. Due to the
detrimental effects of recent floods on the economy, governance, etc., it is imperative to …

Coastal cities contrive to spread their transformative influence both into the hinterland, along
the coastline, and into the coastal waters themselves. These effects will be intensified in …