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Susanna Occhipinti
The goal of the present research is to contribute to spreading in Italian schools greater awareness of the dangers derived from natural phenomena, such as landslides, floods or earthquakes. The essential steps are: developing the understanding of the ter...
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Giacomo Buffarini, Paolo Clemente, Sonia Giovinazzi, Chiara Ormando, Maurizio Pollino and Vittorio Rosato
A procedure for assessing and monitoring the response of critical infrastructures when subjected to natural hazards is proposed in this paper, with a particular focus on bridges and viaducts, which are very peculiar and strategic assets of transport netw...
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Jinzhu Jiu, Hongjuan Wu and Sen Li
The Three Gorges Reservoir Region (TGRR) in China is an ecologically and politically important region experiencing rapid land use/cover changes and prone to many environment hazards related to soil erosion. In the present study, we: (1) estimated recent ...
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Hung Vuong Pham, Maria Katherina Dal Barco, Mohsen Pourmohammad Shahvar, Elisa Furlan, Andrea Critto and Silvia Torresan
The coastal environment is vulnerable to natural hazards and human-induced stressors. The assessment and management of coastal risks have become a challenging task, due to many environmental and socio-economic risk factors together with the complex inter...
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Maria Luisa Villani, Sonia Giovinazzi and Antonio Costanzo
Natural hazards are increasingly threatening our communities; hence it is imperative to provide communities with reliable information on possible impacts of such disasters, and on resilience measures that can be adopted to recover from disasters. To incr...
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Yange Li, Han Wei, Zheng Han, Nan Jiang, Weidong Wang and Jianling Huang
Onsite systematic monitoring benefits hazard prevention immensely. Hazard identification is usually limited due to the semantic gap. Previous studies that integrate computer vision and ontology can address the semantic gap and detect the onsite hazards. ...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Cheuk Yin Wai and Nitin Muttil
Urbanization is a challenge faced by most countries worldwide and leads to several problems. Due to rapid communication capabilities, conforming the megacities into Ubiquitous cities (U-cities) seems to be a potential solution to mitigate the problems ca...
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Raffaele Albano and Aurelia Sole
In the last decade, real-time access to data and the use of high-resolution spatial information have provided scientists and engineers with valuable information to help them understand risk. At the same time, there has been a rapid growth of novel and cu...
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Kipyoung Kim, Hokeun Kang and Youtaek Kim
Sea transport of natural gas in the form of hydrate pellets is a new technological approach. Introducing new technologies bears raises the possibility of introducing unknown risks or?in case of alternatives for already existing technical solutions?higher...
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Felix Conitz, Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Gerd Lupp and Stephan Pauleit
Mountain areas are highly exposed to flood risks. The latter are increasing in the context of climate change, urbanization, and land use changes. Non-structural approaches such as nature-based solutions can provide opportunities to reduce the risks of su...
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Avoce Honga Abdoul Nasser, Petro Dickson Ndalila, Edem A. Mawugbe, Melaine Emmanuel Kouame, Mioumnde Arthur Paterne and Yuxing Li
Risk assessment is one of the main tools that oil and gas industries use to assess the hazards and risks in their facilities worldwide. Qualitative and quantitative risk assessments are carried out at various phases of the process industry: conceptual st...
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Maria Francesca Bruno, Giulia Motta Zanin, Angela Barbanente and Leonardo Damiani
Nowadays, erosion and flooding risks represent a serious threat to coastal areas and this trend will be worsened due to climate change. The increasing concentration of population in coastal areas has a negative impact on the coastal ecosystem due to chan...
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Julio Garrote, Andrés Díez-Herrero, Mar Génova, José M. Bodoque, María A. Perucha and Pablo L. Mayer
Flash floods represent one of the more usual natural hazards in mountain basins, and, combined with the lack of reliable flow data and the recreational use of the drainage basin by tourists and hikers, there is a significant risk of catastrophe. Here, we...
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Bogdan Ozga-Zielinski, Jan Adamowski and Maurycy Ciupak
River basin safety issues and hazards arising from extreme hydrological and meteorological events pose significant risks to human life and can entail economic and financial losses. In this study, the practical aspects of reliability theory linked to reli...
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K. Pitilakis, S. Argyroudis, K. Kakderi, J. Selva
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Transportation infrastructures are complex systems of various connected components like bridges, roads, tunnels, embankments, retaining walls in case of a highway system or wharfs, cranes, buildings, utility systems in case of port facilities. Due to the...
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Kultigin Demirlioglu and Emrah Erduran
Bridges serve as vital engineering structures crafted to facilitate secure and effective transportation networks. Throughout their life-cycle, they withstand various factors, including diverse environmental conditions, natural hazards, and substantial lo...
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Abdelrahman Khalifa, Bashar Bashir, Abdullah Alsalman, Sambit Prasanajit Naik and Rosa Nappi
Evaluating and predicting the occurrence and spatial remarks of climate and rainfall-related destructive hazards is a big challenge. Periodically, Sinai Peninsula is suffering from natural risks that enthuse researchers to provide the area more attention...
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Mohamed Wahba, Mustafa El-Rawy, Nassir Al-Arifi and Mahmoud M. Mansour
Landslides and flash floods are significant natural hazards with substantial risks to human settlements and the environment, and understanding their interconnection is vital. This research investigates the hazards of landslides and floods in two adopted ...
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Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis and Andreas Tsatsaris
Floods are natural hazards with negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts at a local and regional level. In addition to human lives, facilities, and infrastructure, flooding is a potential threat to archaeological sites, with all the implications ...
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Karina Sinaí Medina Camarena, Thea Wübbelmann and Kristian Förster
Hydrological modeling is commonly used in urban areas for drainage design and to estimate pluvial flood hazards in order to mitigate flood risks and damages. In general, modelers choose well-known and proven models, which are tailored to represent the ru...
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