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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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Sarah Irwin, Andre Schardong, Slobodan P. Simonovic and Niru Nirupama
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Damages to urban systems as a result of water-related natural disasters have escalated in recent years. The observed trend is expected to increase in the future as the impacts of population growth, rapid urbanization and climate change persist. To allevi...
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Sarah Irwin, Andre Schardong, Slobodan P. Simonovic and Niru Nirupama
Damages to urban systems as a result of water-related natural disasters have escalated in recent years. The observed trend is expected to increase in the future as the impacts of population growth, rapid urbanization and climate change persist. To allevi...
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Pilar Barría, María Luisa Cruzat, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Jorge Gironás, Cristián Escauriaza, Carlos Bonilla, Roberto Moris, Christian Ledezma, Maricarmen Guerra, Raimundo Rodríguez and Alma Torres
Multi-hazard evaluations are fundamental inputs for disaster risk management plans and the implementation of resilient urban environments, adapted to extreme natural events. Risk assessments from natural hazards have been typically restricted to the anal...
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Chima Ibeanu, Mazyar Ghadiri Nejad and Matina Ghasemi
Emphasizing the need to provide a coordinated flood management strategy in the country and avoid acting in an isolated way when it occurs, improving the attitude of flood control during floods, and controlling floods with comprehensive analysis are among...
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Narcisa Gabriela Pricope and Greer Shivers
Flood mitigation in low-gradient, tidally-influenced, and rapidly urbanizing coastal locations remains a priority across a range of stakeholders and communities. Wetland ecosystems act as a natural flood buffer for coastal storms and sea level rise (SLR)...
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Daniele Giordan, Martina Cignetti, Aleksandra Wrzesniak, Paolo Allasia and Davide Bertolo
Active landslide risk assessment and management are primarily based on the availability of dedicated studies and monitoring activities. The establishment of decision support for the efficient management of active landslides threatening urban areas is a w...
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Jing Ran and Zorica Nedovic-Budic
Accessible geospatial data are crucial for informed decision making and policy development in urban planning, environmental governance, and hazard mitigation. Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have been implemented to facilitate such data access. Howev...
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Boxiang Tang and T. W. Gallien
Urban coastal flooding is a global humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard. Rising sea levels will increase the likelihood of hydrologic events interacting with high marine water levels. These compound events may, in turn, nonlinearly interact with urban i...
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Hai-Min Lyu, Ye-Shuang Xu, Wen-Chieh Cheng and Arul Arulrajah
The Yangtze River Basin and Huaihe River Basin in Southern China experienced severe floods 1998 and 2016. The reasons for the flooding hazards include the following two factors: hazardous weather conditions and degradation of the hydrological environment...
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Theano Samara, Dimitrios Raptis and Ioannis Spanos
The peri-urban and urban forests in Greece occupy a total area of 105.353 ha. In these vulnerable ecosystems, fire constitutes a natural disaster presenting particular challenges and specific difficulties. These include the high number of visitors as wel...
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Xiaying Wang, Yumei Yang, Yuanping Xia, Shuaiqiang Chen and Yulin She
As one of the most developed coastal cities, Shanghai experiences long-term ground surface settlement disasters during urban expansion periods, which has adverse effects on economic development. To date, many studies regarding Shanghai?s ground surface s...
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Christos Mattas, Dimitris Karpouzos, Pantazis Georgiou and Theodoros Tsapanos
Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers? income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat of a dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for the local society,...
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Ali Eliawa, Asli Numanoglu Genç, Hakan Tora and Hadi Hakan Maras
Sea Level Rise (SLR) due to global warming is becoming a more pressing issue for coastal zones. This paper presents an overall analysis to assess the risk of a low-lying coastal area in Karasu, Turkey. For SLR scenarios of 1 m, 2 m, and 3 m by 2100, inun...
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Rasoul Afsari, Saman Nadizadeh Shorabeh, Mostafa Kouhnavard, Mehdi Homaee and Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Preparedness against floods in a hazard management perspective plays a major role in the pre-event phase. Hence, assessing urban vulnerability and resilience towards floods for different risk scenarios is a prerequisite for urban planners and decision ma...
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Majed Alinizzi, Husnain Haider and Mohammad Alresheedi
In addition to a wide range of socio-economic impacts, traffic congestion during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic has been identified as a critical issue to be addressed. In urban neighborhoods, the timespan of traffic congestion hazard (HTC) after the c...
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Ljubomir Gigovic, Dragan Pamucar, Zoran Bajic, Sini?a Drobnjak
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Floods are natural disasters with significant socio-economic consequences. Urban areas with uncontrolled urban development, rapid population growth, an unregulated municipal system and an unplanned change of land use belong to the highly sensitive areas ...
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Yao Yuan, Ye-Shuang Xu, Arul Arulrajah
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Global warming induces temperature variations and sea level changes for a long period of time. Many coastal cities around the world have experienced the harmful consequences of sea level changes and temperature variations. The city of Shanghai in China a...
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Manoj K. Jha and Sayma Afreen
The frequency and severity of floods have been found to increase in recent decades, which have adverse effects on the environment, economics, and human lives. The catastrophe of such floods can be confronted with the advance prediction of floods and reli...
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Yao Yuan, Ye-Shuang Xu and Arul Arulrajah
Global warming induces temperature variations and sea level changes for a long period of time. Many coastal cities around the world have experienced the harmful consequences of sea level changes and temperature variations. The city of Shanghai in China a...
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