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Sumit Dugar
Researcher at Practical Action
Publications - 17
Citations - 342
Sumit Dugar is an academic researcher from Practical Action. The author has contributed to research in topics: Warning system & Flood forecasting. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications receiving 245 citations. Previous affiliations of Sumit Dugar include Tribhuvan University.
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Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building
Jonathan D. Paul,Wouter Buytaert,Simon Allen,Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas,Jagat K. Bhusal,Katarzyna Cieslik,Julian Clark,Sumit Dugar,David M. Hannah,Markus Stoffel,Art Dewulf,Megh Raj Dhital,Wei Liu,Janak Lal Nayaval,Bhanu Neupane,A. Schiller,Paul Smith,Robert Supper +17 more
TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art of citizen science within the context of hydrological risk reduction and resilience building can be found in this paper, where the authors argue that citizen science could complement more traditional knowledge generation practices, and also enhance innovation, adaptation, multidirectional information provision, risk management, and local resilience building.
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Technologies to Support Community Flood Disaster Risk Reduction
Ian McCallum,Wei Liu,Linda See,Reinhard Mechler,Adriana Keating,Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler,Junko Mochizuki,Steffen Fritz,Sumit Dugar,Miguel Arestegui,Michael Szoenyi,Juan Carlos Laso Bayas,Peter Burek,Adam French,Inian Moorthy +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to use expert-based data collection and analysis, direct input from communities and citizens across the globe may also be used to monitor, validate, and reduce flood risk.
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Community-based early warning systems for flood risk mitigation in Nepal
TL;DR: An assessment of the applicability of this approach in basins and countries beyond Karnali and Nepal and an overview of key lessons learnt from this initiative are concluded.
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Integrated Participatory and Collaborative Risk Mapping for Enhancing Disaster Resilience
Wei Liu,Sumit Dugar,Ian McCallum,Gaurav Thapa,Linda See,Prakash Khadka,Nama Raj Budhathoki,Sarah Brown,Reinhard Mechler,Steffen Fritz,Puja Shakya +10 more
TL;DR: How this integrated mapping approach may provide an effective link between coordinating and implementing local disaster risk reduction and resilience building interventions to designing and informing regional development plans is discussed, as well as its limitations in terms of technological barrier, map ownership, and empowerment potential.
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Communicating complex forecasts: an analysis of the approach in Nepal's flood early warning system
Mirianna Budimir,Amy Donovan,Sarah Brown,Puja Shakya,Dilip Gautam,Madhab Uprety,Michael Cranston,Alison Sneddon,Paul Smith,Sumit Dugar +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse and understand the current flood early warning system in Nepal, considering available data and forecasts, information flows, early warning dissemination, and decision-making for early action.