Feedback analysis of an expert opinion survey for flood management

摘要

Flood is a serious physical phenomenon which is now a day becomes a common scenario around the world. The flood management planning is essential for decreasing the damages that occurred due to flood like situations. There are several flood management techniques and methods but the problem still persists. Hence in order to have better understanding about floods and flood management strategies, a survey was conducted in three parts. First part of survey is for an Expert people and other parts of surveys are for PG and UG students of Civil engineering department respectively. The main objective of the paper is to determine the Expert people's opinion, their perception and understanding about flood phenomena. And based on their experience, identify the critical parameters involved in causing flood and steps involved in flood management. The feedbacks from the surveys are then analyzed thoroughly which shows that the green canopy covers should be increased; deforestation and urbanization should be controlled to some extent to manage floods effectively..