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Image number: | 2590 |
Feature : | inundation |
Grouping : | runoff |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 2010 |
Locality : | Bujumbura airport |
Country : | Burundi |
Region - tribe : | Bujumbura |
Physiographic region : | Rift-Tanganyika |
Notice : | Runoff coefficients are increasing by changing soil use and urbanisation. This leads to inundations more frequent and more important than before. Such floods are not the result of river overbank flow alone, but also of runoff. Slopes.Natural hazard. Natural risk. |
Reference : | Nahimana, Louis, 2010 Image 2590. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |