EvoFlood Overview
The EvoFlood project is a £3.7M NERC funded research programme addressing flooding, Earth's deadliest and most costly natural hazard, affecting societies across the globe. Nearly one billion people are exposed to the risk of flooding in their lifetimes. In some areas, such as along the Mekong River in Cambodia, flooding is an annual event. The yearly effects on individuals and societies are extreme:
There is now clear consensus that climate change will, in many parts of the globe, cause substantial increases in the frequency of occurrence of extreme rainfall events, which in turn will generate increases in peak flood flows and therefore flood vast areas of land.
Societal exposure to flooding is compounded by: