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Floods and landslides : the emerging scenario

by H. M. M. B Seneviratne (NTNU, Norway, Research fellow) and H.K.N. Karunaratne (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Colombo)

A detailed review of the relevance of climatic change shows that the wet areas of Sri Lanka will face an increasing threat of floods and slides in the period ahead of 1990 to the future. More than 500 academic and technical publications bear witness to this scenario. The best available most recent academic and technical data are provided by the WMO/UNEP Report (1998) on the regional impacts of climatic change, which clearly indicates an increase of total and intensity of rainfall in the South Asian region.
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