Forewarned, but not Forearmed? Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010

Author(s)
Ghorpade, Y.
Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
18 Oct 2022
Type
Lessons papers
Keywords
Floods & landslides, Environment & climate, Social protection
Countries
Pakistan

As climate change results in recurrent and more frequent natural disasters, each calamity proves instructional for the future. I summarize the lessons learned from the social protection and wider disaster response in the 2010 floods in Pakistan and discuss how they can benefit ongoing efforts to recover from the floods in the country in 2022, and other settings.