Nepal floods 'unprecedented', requires new 'engineering approaches, risk-sensitive urban planning'
- Basanta Raj Adhikari, Director of the Center for Disaster Studies at Tribhuvan University’s Institute of Engineering.
- He describes the disaster as an illustration of the limits of conventional prevention in the Himalayas.
- With flood velocities estimated at 170 to 180 kilometres per hour and hazards ranging from ice and snow avalanches to glacial lake outburs
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- Basanta Raj Adhikari, Director of the Center for Disaster Studies at Tribhuvan University’s Institute of Engineering.
- He describes the disaster as an illustration of the limits of conventional prevention in the Himalayas.
- With flood velocities estimated at 170 to 180 kilometres per hour and hazards ranging from ice and snow avalanches to glacial lake outburs
Sources: France 24