How is it possible that today’s modern cities like Bangkok, Rome and Genoa can seem so defenceless against flooding?
According to Hans Hurni, director of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South at Bern University, emergency planning is often overlooked during rapid growth of urban centres.
American doomsday prophet, Harold Camping, had predicted that the end of the world would come on October 21. Maybe there was some truth in his forecast.
Only two weeks later, the northern Italian city of Genoa experienced its “apocalypse”, as it was described in the Italian newspaper, Il Tempo. In little more than 12 hours, 350mm of rain fell on the main town of the Ligurian coast – a third of the total amount of annual precipitation. A deluge transformed streets in the Genoan centre into swollen rivers. Full story...
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According to Hans Hurni, director of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South at Bern University, emergency planning is often overlooked during rapid growth of urban centres.
American doomsday prophet, Harold Camping, had predicted that the end of the world would come on October 21. Maybe there was some truth in his forecast.
Only two weeks later, the northern Italian city of Genoa experienced its “apocalypse”, as it was described in the Italian newspaper, Il Tempo. In little more than 12 hours, 350mm of rain fell on the main town of the Ligurian coast – a third of the total amount of annual precipitation. A deluge transformed streets in the Genoan centre into swollen rivers. Full story...
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