Flood-proofing the road network (1): roads as flood shelters in Pakistan
Frank van Steenbergen, Popi Michelogiannaki and Mohammed Umar Karim … Continued
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Hill Torrent Floods Impacting the Southern Punjab Pakistan
Blog by Khurram Mubeen1, edited by Reinier Veldman2 1Assistant Professor (Agronomy), Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan-Pakistan 2Coordinator FBLN … Continued
Another Consecutive Disaster in Sindh
By Ashfaque A. Soomro, Research and Development Foundation (RDF), Pakistan August 31, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has not yet … Continued
Postcard from Bahirdar, Ethiopia
By Mekdelawit Messay Deribe August, 2018 Travelling on the road from Bahirdar to Debre Tabor, you can see rice fields … Continued
River Reappear
Postcard from Kulna, Bangladesh By Frank van Steenbergen, July,2018 There are many ways that time is making its mark. In … Continued
Roads to the Rescue
Posted by Cecilia Borgia February 8, 2017 Coastal Bangladesh is a vast area. It spans over 19 of the 64 … Continued
Maladaptation in Bangladesh
Posted by Frank van Steenbergen October 14, 2015 A big debate is going on in Bangladesh around ‘maladaptation.’ A paper[1] … Continued
High potentials
Posted by Matthijs Kool, Frank van Steenbergen, Berry van der Pol, Abraham Mehari Haile and Robert Vuik January 30, 2015 They … Continued
The Multifunctional Al Sailah Road-Canal
Posted by Jihan Anwar November 04, 2013 This stone-paved canal is called Al Saila, and it runs along the Capital … Continued
How the British did it better
By Usman Qazi In a relentless pursuit of growth and development, the Pakistani state has ignored colonial-era strategies that took … Continued
Meeting Flood-time Water & Sanitation Needs in Bihar, India
Bihar in eastern India is the country’s most flood-prone state. Every year, about 76% of the population and 73% of … Continued