Abstract:Frequent flooding can greatly jeopardize local people’s lives, properties, agriculture, economy, etc. The Swat River Basin (SRB), in the eastern Hindukush region of Pakistan, is a major flood-prone basin with a long history of devastating floods and substantial socioeconomic and physical damages. Here we produced a flood susceptibility map of the SRB, using the frequency ratio (FR) bivariate statistical model. A database was created that comprised flood inventory as a dependent variable and causative factors o… Show more
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