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Flooding as a Risk Event in Urban Development

Karen Joyce G. Cayamanda & Merlyne M. Paunlagui
Chapter 2
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978-621-96514-7-9

Flooding is a potential threat with serious implications to development initiatives, especially in densely populated urban areas. It also exposes and increases communities to further risks and hazards. The role of government and financial restrictions are the two major problems that developing, and least developing countries face when managing disasters. It has serious implications as well as open avenues for identifying areas of improvement on the social and physical dimension of a city’s development (Auzzir et al., 2014). Lasco et al. (2009) emphasized that the Philippines, in general, is considered as very vulnerable to climate change as an archipelago. The frequency of typhoons and storms that pass through the Philippines archipelago make it more vulnerable to flooding (Magalang, 2010).

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