Flood disasters in India’s West Bengal: are roads and railways to blame?
Flood disasters in India’s West Bengal: are roads and railways to blame?
Flood disasters in India’s West Bengal: are roads and railways to blame?
In September 2000, floods in West Bengal in India killed five thousand people, displaced more than 20 million people and destroyed or damaged 2.2m houses. Could the scale of the damage have been anticipated? What does the flood teach us about appropriate and sustainable development in the flood-prone Bengal delta?

