Floods – An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
1. Causes of flooding – physical and human.
Australian floods – 2010
2. Characteristics of floods – analysis and interpretation of flood hydrographs.
3. Managing flooding in urban, rural and informal settlement areas.
This is a great website on managing floods and includes case studies. Read it here. (external link)
Informal Settlements:
4. Case study of a flood in South Africa.
The Laingsburg flood (25 January 1981) is South Africa’s worst flood.
Click here to view a great photo gallery of the Laingsburg flood.