Pakistan Floods: Internally Displaced People and the Human Impact

Author(s)
Dixon, R. A. and Schaffer, T.
Publication language
English
Pages
4pp
Date published
01 Nov 2010
Publisher
CSIS
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disasters, Floods & landslides, Forced displacement and migration, Internal Displacement, Targeting, Identification and Profiling, Urban
Countries
Pakistan
Organisations
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

This short report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at the impact of the 2010 Pakistan floods, which submerged one-fifth of the country, bring destruction and deprivation to 20 million people. The report looks at the economic-structural impact, the human impact, the effects and implications of migration, the Pakistani response and the implications of the disaster on the United States.