2017 Flooding in Peru: Identifying Effective Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Efforts Through
Above: Piura, Peru (Puedes leer este blog en español al final de la página) A sudden warming of waters off Peru’s coast this year, as well as an unusual easing of trade winds, unleashed torrential downpours in February, March and April 2017 causing some of the worst flooding in Peru in decades. Over 1.1 million people have been affected in rural communities and urban areas in 24 of the country’s 25 departments. One third of the affected population, about 315,000 people, lives in the department of Piura. Preliminary official reports indicate that 32,627 homes are destroyed or uninhabitable and nearly 200,000 homes are affected. Flood reconstruction will cost $3 billion in the short term, and
(Above: The city of Da Nang, the majority of which is surrounded by water. To the east there is the Han River, and to the North the Da Nang Bay. Google Maps, Feb. 2nd, 2017) The majority of the city of Da Nang is surrounded by water and it is susceptible to regular flooding and tropical typhoons. With a population of roughly one million and a growing economy, this city has a lot to lose when water rises. To meet this challenge, Da Nang became part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) in 2009, and in the following year undertook a project that would change flood risk reduction within the city, the region, and possibly the whole country. 2010: Da Nang Begins Work on a
