Abstract:Abstract. Flood risk is expected to increase in many regions worldwide due to rapid urbanization and climate change if adequate risk-mitigation (or climate-change-adaptation) measures are not implemented. However, the exact benefits of these measures remain unknown or inadequately quantified for potential future events in some multi-hazard-prone areas such as Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, which this paper addresses. The analysis involves modeling two flood-occurrence cases (with 100-year and 1000-year mean return p… Show more
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