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Barbara Cardone, Valeria D?Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
One of the issues of greatest interest in urban planning today concerns the evaluation of the most vulnerable urban areas in the presence of different types of climate hazards. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy MCDA model is implemented on a GIS-bas...
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Arian Loli and Chiara Bertolin
Within the built environment, historic buildings are among the most vulnerable structures to the climate change impact. In the Scandinavian countries, the risk from climatic changes is more pronounced and the right adaptation interventions should be chos...
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Riitta Molarius, Jaana Keränen and Liisa Poussa
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Cesar Casiano Flores and Joep Crompvoets
Climate change has increased pluvial flood risks in cities around the world. To mitigate floods, pluvial risk maps with climate change scenarios have been developed to help major urban areas adapt to a changing climate. In some cases, subnational governm...
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Yonas Abebe Balcha, Andreas Malcherek and Tena Alamirew
Climate change makes the climate system of a given region unpredictable and increases the risk of water-related problems. GCMs (global climate models) help in understanding future climate conditions over a given region. In this study, 12 GCMs from the CM...
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Hongyuan Zhang, Dongliang Shen, Shaowu Bao, Leonard Pietrafesa, Paul T. Gayes and Hamed Majidzadeh
Stormwater management ponds (SMPs) protect coastal communities from flooding caused by heavy rainfall and runoff. If the SMPs are submerged under seawater during a tropical cyclone (TC) and its storm surge, their function will be compromised. Under clima...
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Louis Provencher, Kevin Badik, Tanya Anderson, Joel Tuhy, Dan Fletcher, Elaine York and Sarah Byer
Managing vast federal public lands governed by multiple land use policies creates challenges when demographic data on at-risk species are lacking. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Cedar City Field Office used this project in the Black Mountains (Utah) ...
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Carlos Coelho, Pedro Narra, Bárbara Marinho and Márcia Lima
There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are avail...
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Narayan Nyaupane, Balbhadra Thakur, Ajay Kalra and Sajjad Ahmad
Frequent flooding events in recent years have been linked with the changing climate. Comprehending flooding events and their risks is the first step in flood defense and can help to mitigate flood risk. Floodplain mapping is the first step towards flood ...
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Bowen He, Han Zheng and Qun Guan
This study examines the DCMA concerning the future risk of the water security status. We considered three risk factors: population growth, economic growth, and natural water supply?demand differences. In the risk analysis part, we consulted with experts ...
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Esther Barrios-Crespo, Saúl Torres-Ortega and Pedro Díaz-Simal
The effects of climate change imply an increase in the risk levels due to coastal flooding. These areas present a high concentration of population and economic activity. The failure of critical infrastructures (CI) serving these communities can have sign...
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Yang Yu, Yu Shao, Bolun Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Haibo Guo and Yang Chen
Due to global warming, the overheating risk in the severe cold region of China has attracted attention, but so far, no studies have examined summer overheating in this region. This paper aims to reveal the overheating risk in recent and future climates i...
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Eun Ju Kang, Sukyeon Lee, Juhyun Kang, Hanbi Moon, Il-Nam Kim and Ju-Hyoung Kim
Caulerpa, a (sub) tropical seaweed, is a notorious taxonomic group and an invasive seaweed worldwide. Similar to several species that have been introduced to benthic habitats through aquariums, Caulerpa sertularioides has also been introduced into Korean...
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Nick Martin
Climate and land use and land cover (LULC) changes will impact watershed-scale water resources. These systemic alterations will have interacting influences on water availability. A probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) framework for water resource impact a...
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André D. Orcesi, Hélène Chemineau, Pei-Hui Lin, Pieter van Gelder, Noël van Erp
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This paper presents an optimization framework for highway infrastructure elements that integrates risk profiles (for infrastructures) and economic aspects. One main goal is to assess the necessary additional effort to satisfy performance constraints unde...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Ramiro Salvador Gómez-Villerías, Adalberto Tejeda-Martínez, Ana Cecilia Conde Álvarez, Maximino Reyes Umaña, José Luis Rosas-Acevedo, Manuel Ignacio Ruz Vargas and Erick Alfonso Galán Castro
The potential impacts of sea level in the study region are presented using the Integrated Procedure for Estimate Sea Level Impacts (IPESLI), made up of Landsat images, official databases, and design software for geographic information systems. IPESLI is ...
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Ibrahim H. Elsebaie, Mohamed El Alfy and Atef Qasem Kawara
In arid areas, flashflood water management is a major concern due to arid climate ambiguity. The examining and derivation of intensity?duration?frequency (IDF) curves in an urban arid area under a variety of terrain patterns and climatic changes is antic...
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Biswajit Nath, Zhihua Wang, Yong Ge, Kamrul Islam, Ramesh P. Singh and Zheng Niu
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) has directly played an important role in the observed climate change. In this paper, we considered Dujiangyan City and its environs (DCEN) to study the future scenario in the years 2025, 2030, and 2040 based on the ...
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Carlos Antunes, Carolina Rocha and Cristina Catita
Portugal?s mainland has hundreds of thousands of people living in the Atlantic coastal zone, with numerous high economic value activities and a high number of infrastructures that must be adapted and protected from natural coastal hazards, namely, extrem...
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