Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns
The Awash Basin in Ethiopia experiences frequent flooding, sometimes with devastating consequences. Climate change is now creating new flood regimes in different parts of the basin and reshaping the interaction of flooding with rapidly changing communities. This is causing heightened risk, particula...
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| author | Taye, Meron Teferi Haile, Alemseged Tamiru Dessalegn, Mengistu Nigussie, Likimyelesh Bekele, Tilaye Worku Nicol, Alan Dyer, E. |
| author_browse | Bekele, Tilaye Worku Dessalegn, Mengistu Dyer, E. Haile, Alemseged Tamiru Nicol, Alan Nigussie, Likimyelesh Taye, Meron Teferi |
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| description | The Awash Basin in Ethiopia experiences frequent flooding, sometimes with devastating consequences. Climate change is now creating new flood regimes in different parts of the basin and reshaping the interaction of flooding with rapidly changing communities. This is causing heightened risk, particularly for the most vulnerable communities across the basin, and requires new forms of management and response.
This study explores the physical changes in rainfall and landscapes leading to major flood events and examines the interaction of physical phenomena with societal and economic dynamics across the basin’s upper, middle, and lower reaches. The study’s multi-dimensional perspective includes analysis of hydroclimatic variables at the basin level including global drivers, flood characterization in selected catchments, and understanding of affected communities at sub-catchment levels. Selected catchments cover urban parts of the Awash, as well as agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral areas. The major focus of the work was the recent extreme wet season in 2020 and associated flooding during which an estimated, 144,000 were displaced and 60,000 hectares were inundated. This was the most serious flood event in the basin since 1996. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1681232025-12-08T10:29:22Z Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns Taye, Meron Teferi Haile, Alemseged Tamiru Dessalegn, Mengistu Nigussie, Likimyelesh Bekele, Tilaye Worku Nicol, Alan Dyer, E. flooding adaptation mitigation river basins rainfall patterns climate change land use land cover remote sensing image analysis stream flow communities livelihoods women risk coping strategies urbanization institutions The Awash Basin in Ethiopia experiences frequent flooding, sometimes with devastating consequences. Climate change is now creating new flood regimes in different parts of the basin and reshaping the interaction of flooding with rapidly changing communities. This is causing heightened risk, particularly for the most vulnerable communities across the basin, and requires new forms of management and response. This study explores the physical changes in rainfall and landscapes leading to major flood events and examines the interaction of physical phenomena with societal and economic dynamics across the basin’s upper, middle, and lower reaches. The study’s multi-dimensional perspective includes analysis of hydroclimatic variables at the basin level including global drivers, flood characterization in selected catchments, and understanding of affected communities at sub-catchment levels. Selected catchments cover urban parts of the Awash, as well as agricultural, pastoral, and agro-pastoral areas. The major focus of the work was the recent extreme wet season in 2020 and associated flooding during which an estimated, 144,000 were displaced and 60,000 hectares were inundated. This was the most serious flood event in the basin since 1996. 2024-09 2024-12-20T12:16:44Z 2024-12-20T12:16:44Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168123 en Open Access University of Oxford Taye, Meron Teferi; Haile, Alemseged Tamiru; Dessalegn, Mengistu; Nigussie, Likimyelesh; Bekele, Tilaye Worku; Nicol, Alan; Dyer, E. 2024. Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford. REACH Programme. 44p. |
| spellingShingle | flooding adaptation mitigation river basins rainfall patterns climate change land use land cover remote sensing image analysis stream flow communities livelihoods women risk coping strategies urbanization institutions Taye, Meron Teferi Haile, Alemseged Tamiru Dessalegn, Mengistu Nigussie, Likimyelesh Bekele, Tilaye Worku Nicol, Alan Dyer, E. Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title | Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title_full | Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title_fullStr | Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title_short | Flood adaptation and mitigation in the Awash Basin: responding to new climate patterns |
| title_sort | flood adaptation and mitigation in the awash basin responding to new climate patterns |
| topic | flooding adaptation mitigation river basins rainfall patterns climate change land use land cover remote sensing image analysis stream flow communities livelihoods women risk coping strategies urbanization institutions |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168123 |
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