Floods in Pakistan: A state-of-the-art review

Waseem, Hassam Bin; Rana, Irfan Ahmad

doi:10.1016/j.nhres.2023.06.005

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“…Developing economies such as Pakistan are more vulnerable to climatic changes, as evidenced by the flooding in 2010 and 2022 [ 84 ]. There is an urgent need for climate adaptation funds to sustain the social and economic condition of highly debited nations under the Copenhagen Accord and climate justice to support Pakistan with climate financing under article 9.2 of the Paris Accord that will help to justify the efforts with building confidence towards implementation of justice frame and criteria by the IFIs and lenders [ 85 ].…”

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Modelling the Nexus of municipal solid waste sector for climate resilience and adaptation to nature-based solutions: A case study of Pakistan

Iqbal,

Yasar,

Nizami

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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Modelling the Nexus of municipal solid waste sector for climate resilience and adaptation to nature-based solutions: A case study of Pakistan

Iqbal,

Yasar,

Nizami

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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“…Events like the Black Summer fires in Australia, which caused extensive damage to infrastructure and the natural landscape, have been linked to CC [1]. Extreme rainfalls caused by CC during the monsoon of 2022 resulted in a devastating flood that adversely affected one-third of Pakistan [2]. CC's catastrophic tendencies, like frequent floods, cyclones, wildfires, and droughts, present a grave threat to communities and infrastructure around the globe [3,4].…”

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Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Sajid,

Ullah,

Qayyum

et al. 2024

Smart Cities

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Modular construction (MC) is a promising concept with the potential to revolutionize the construction industry (CI). The sustainability aspects of MC, among its other encouraging facets, have garnered escalated interest and acclaim among the research community, especially in the context of climate change (CC) mitigation efforts. Despite numerous scholarly studies contributing to the understanding of MC, a holistic review of the prevailing literature that systematically documents the impact of utilizing MC on CC mitigation remains scarce. The study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) of the pertinent literature retrieved from the Scopus repository to explore the relationship between MC and CC mitigation. Employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, the SLR was conducted on 31 shortlisted articles published between 2010 and 2023. The findings of the study reveal that MC can mitigate the climate crisis by reducing GHG emissions, curtailing resource intensiveness by enabling a circular economy (CE), fomenting energy efficiency, and fostering resourceful land use and management in the CI. A conceptual framework based on the findings of the previous literature is proposed in this study, which outlines several strategies for CC mitigation that can be implemented by the adoption of MC in the CI. The current study is a humble effort to review various offerings of MC to help mitigate CC in the era of striving for global sustainability. For industry practitioners and policymakers, this study highlights the viability of leveraging MC for CC mitigation, aiming to inspire better decision making for sustainable development in the CI. Similarly, for researchers, it presents MC as a potential tool for CC mitigation that can be further explored in terms of its associated factors, and focused frameworks can be developed.

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“…Pakistan has witnessed a rise in flood risk due to the increased frequency, intensity and duration of floods in recent decades (Ali et al 2022, Waseem andRana 2023). The risk is further compounded due to the large number of people exposed to flooding in the Indus basin, which ranks second globally in terms of flood-exposed population (Tellman et al 2021).…”

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Was the extreme rainfall that caused the August 2022 flood in Pakistan predictable?

Malik,

Chuphal,

Vegad

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Climate

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Pakistan suffered from severe floods in the past, but in August 2022, the country experienced exceptional extreme rainfall events that caused widespread and catastrophic flooding. The 2022 flood affected all aspects of socio-economic lives including agriculture, infrastructure, and mortality of humans and livestock. The two-day accumulated extreme rainfall on August 17-18 was anomalous and contributed the most to the flood in the southern provinces of Pakistan. The damage caused by extreme rainfall and the subsequent flooding has raised questions regarding the predictability of extreme rainfall by the existing weather forecasting models. Here, we use ensemble forecasts from four numerical weather prediction (NWP) models under THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) datasets to examine the predictability of extreme rainfall at a six-day lead. The extreme precipitation during August 17-18, 2022 was predictable a week before the event that contributed the most to the flooding. All the forecast models provided an early warning at a six-day lead time. UKMO and ECMWF models produced comparable results to observations at all the lead times. Our findings highlight that an integrated framework of extended quantitative precipitation forecasts and hydrological modelling can help reduce the country's flood vulnerability and risk associated with it.

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Floods in Pakistan: A state-of-the-art review

Cited by 13 publications

References 79 publications

Modelling the Nexus of municipal solid waste sector for climate resilience and adaptation to nature-based solutions: A case study of Pakistan

Modelling the Nexus of municipal solid waste sector for climate resilience and adaptation to nature-based solutions: A case study of Pakistan

Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Was the extreme rainfall that caused the August 2022 flood in Pakistan predictable?

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