Annual Mekong Flood Report 2008
Conventionally, floods and flooding are perceived as geophysical hazards within a common
framework of natural disasters that also covers storms and hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, landslides and tsunami. In each case, socioeconomic losses and damage increase
exponentially with event magnitude and as a function of civil exposure and vulnerability. Such
hazards are perceived as random events that have entirely negative impacts, ignoring the fact
that floods also have a positive ecological and socioeconomic function.
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