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This is a technical tool/report intended for practitioners involved in flood management. Its purpose is to provide operationalālevel guidance for assessing flood losses. Key uses include:
Activating and facilitating local and external aid following flood events
Formulating recovery plans
Informing long-term development planning and policy reforms in flood management
It lays out concepts and methods for flood loss assessments, drawing on case studies from countries like Czech Republic, Japan, Madagascar, and Nepal. It also aims to help standardize the practice, reduce arbitrariness in how loss assessments are made, and make sure assessments are useful and comparable over time and across regions.
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Publishing Year: 2007
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Pages: 36