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Hilary Hungerford, Sarah L. Smiley, Taylor Blair, Samantha Beutler, Noel Bowers and Eddy Cadet
African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal?located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region?has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate drain...
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African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal?located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region?has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate drain...
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Mahdi Sedighkia, Anna Linhoss and Paul Mickle
This study develops and evaluates a simulation-optimization approach to mitigate the environmental impacts of freshwater pulses in brackish-water lakes whilst maximizing flood diversion benefits. Lake Pontchartrain, located downstream of the Mississippi ...
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Said A. Mejia Manrique, Eric W. Harmsen, Reza M. Khanbilvardi and Jorge E. González
Flooding during extreme weather events damages critical infrastructure, property, and threatens lives. Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico (PR) on 20 September 2017. Sixty-four deaths were directly attributable to the flooding. This paper describes th...
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Mohamed Mashood Mohamed Moufar and Edangodage Duminda Pradeep Perera
A 15th-century canal system in the Metro Colombo area of Sri Lanka was studied to identify its capacity in controlling floods. The canal system was modelled by MIKE FLOOD for 10, 25 and 50-year return periods of rainfalls to achieve respective floods. Th...
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Lorenzo Alfieri, Francesco Dottori, Richard Betts, Peter Salamon and Luc Feyen
Knowledge on the costs of natural disasters under climate change is key information for planning adaptation and mitigation strategies of future climate policies. Impact models for large scale flood risk assessment have made leaps forward in the past few ...
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Lorenzo Alfieri, Francesco Dottori, Richard Betts, Peter Salamon and Luc Feyen
Knowledge on the costs of natural disasters under climate change is key information for planning adaptation and mitigation strategies of future climate policies. Impact models for large scale flood risk assessment have made leaps forward in the past few ...
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Edoardo Fiorillo, Alfonso Crisci, Hassimou Issa, Giampiero Maracchi, Marco Morabito and Vieri Tarchiani
During the last two decades, the sub-Saharan region has experienced unusual floods that have differentially impacted the region. No official and precise data regarding flood damage and impacts on the population are available, and the magnitude of events ...
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Wisinee Wisetjindawat, Matthew Ian Burke, Motohiro Fujita
Pág. 1198 - 1212
Natural hazards cause much damage to lives, assets, and the economy as a whole. The functional discontinuity of businesses impacted by a natural disaster has a direct impact on affected community's quality of live. In regional and remote communities petr...
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Xihua Wang, Guangxin Zhang and Yi Jun Xu
Flooding?s impact on shallow groundwater is not well investigated. In this study, we analyzed changes in the depth and quality of a regional shallow aquifer in the 10.9 × 104 km2 Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China, following a large flood in the summer of 2...
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Xihua Wang, Guangxin Zhang and Yi Jun Xu
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Enwere Chidimma Loveline
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Wetlands perform a wide variety of functions that include flood control, ground water recharge, shore line stabilization, storm protection and climate moderation. However, despite these huge wetland functions, it has witnessed poor appreciation and...
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Yuewei Hou, Yongping Wei, Shuanglei Wu and Jinghan Li
Flooding has become one of the most dangerous and expensive disasters due to urbanization and climate change. Tools for assessing flood impact are required to support the shift of flood mitigation management from post-disaster recovery and reconstruction...
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Jayanga T. Samarasinghe, Randika K. Makumbura, Charuni Wickramarachchi, Jeewanthi Sirisena, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, Nitin Muttil, Fang Yenn Teo and Upaka Rathnayake
Understanding the changes in climate and land use/land cover (LULC) over time is important for developing policies for minimizing the socio-economic impacts of riverine floods. The present study evaluates the influence of hydro-climatic factors and anthr...
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Carmelina Costanzo, Roberta Padulano and Tommaso Caloiero
Surface and ground waters can be considered the main sources of water supply for agricultural, municipal, and industrial consumers. Over the centuries, the combination of both naturally occurring conditions and humanity?s actions has placed increasing pr...
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Yuhan Rui, Dafang Fu, Ha Do Minh, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan, Chris Zevenbergen and Assela Pathirana
Climate change and urbanization have led to an increase in the frequency of extreme water related events such as flooding, which has negative impacts on the environment, economy and human health. With respect to the latter, our understanding of the inter...
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Yuhan Rui, Dafang Fu, Ha Do Minh, Mohanasundar Radhakrishnan, Chris Zevenbergen and Assela Pathirana
Climate change and urbanization have led to an increase in the frequency of extreme water related events such as flooding, which has negative impacts on the environment, economy and human health. With respect to the latter, our understanding of the inter...
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Samiran Das, Slobodan P. Simonovic
Pág. Page:318 - 338Abstrac
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Annushka Aliev, Sinan Rasiya Koya, Incheol Kim, Jongwan Eun, Elbert Traylor and Tirthankar Roy
The Shell Creek Watershed (SCW) is a rural watershed in Nebraska with a history of chronic flooding. Beginning in 2005, a variety of conservation practices have been employed in the watershed. Those practices have since been credited with attenuating flo...
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Umar Lawal Dano
Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards that cost lives and disrupt the socioeconomic activities of residents, especially in the rapidly growing cities of developing countries. Jeddah, a coastal city situated in Saudi Arabia, has experience...
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