Flood Hazard and Management in Cambodia: A Review of Activities, Knowledge Gaps, and Research Direction

Cambodia is located in one of the most severe flood-vulnerable zones mainland Southeast Asia. Flooding country’s recurrent and impactful hazard among other natural hazards. This alone, observed many river basins, has been inflicting huge damages on livelihoods, social infrastructure, economy. study aims to review current status flood hazards, impacts, driving factors, management capacity, future research directions floods Cambodia. The findings this suggested that there still a lack flood-related studies mapping, risk damage assessment, analysis existing related mainly focused Tonle Sap Basin its tributaries, Lower Mekong Basin, whole River some tributaries fundamental factors flooding are impacts climate change, land-use water infrastructure development, weather extremes. applications mathematical statistical tests indices, conceptual physically-based modeling, artificial intelligence machine learning, remote sensing recommended focus areas planned operation forecasting. outcomes from these would improve understanding characteristics, reinforce management, achieve reduction.