Hazardous settlement of flood plains


  • Building on flood plains
  • Construction on flood plains
  • Exposure of settlements to tidal flooding
  • Hazardous settlement of unprotected coastlines

Incidence

Subsistence farmers lacking cultivable land are increasingly forced to settle marginal lands exposed to tidal flooding. In many river valleys, areas chronically liable to floods are now farmed through lack of more suitable cultivable land. Close to the coast, such settlement may be vulnerable to exceptionally high tides and to the effects of hurricanes.


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