Risks (II): Floods and Human Activities

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3 octobre 2019

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Floods frequently occur in Lebanon during the rainy season, usually between December and March after particularly heavy storms or at the beginning of snowmelt. Rivers overflow causing major damages, which are estimated to amount to 15 million US$ per year. These events are more and more studied and seem mostly related to anthropogenic factors, including uncontrolled urban sprawl. An increasingly frequent phenomenon? There has never been a systematic recording over time of floods in Lebanon, w...

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