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Sang-Min Jun, Moon-Seong Kang, Soonho Hwang, Jihoon Park and Jung-Hun Song
The objective of this research was to apply the flood vulnerability assessment to ungauged reservoirs for prioritizing and evaluating the reservoir rehabilitation according to climate change. The flood vulnerability index (FVI) can quantitatively compare...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Daria Wieslawa Krasiewicz and Grzegorz Wierzbicki
The origin and dynamics of a 2010 pluvial flood in the valley of a large European river are described. In order to study how local people perceive this catastrophic event a small administrative unit (rural municipality) within the Holocene floodplain (th...
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Jae-Yeong Lee and Ji-Sung Kim
As a result of rapid urbanization and population movement, flooding in urban areas has become one of the most common types of natural disaster, causing huge losses of both life and property. To mitigate and prevent the damage caused by the recent increas...
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Wilmer Rey, Miranda Martínez-Amador, Paulo Salles, E. Tonatiuh Mendoza, Miguel A. Trejo-Rangel, Gemma L. Franklin, Pablo Ruiz-Salcines, Christian M. Appendini and Julián Quintero-Ibáñez
This study applies three different methods to assess the flood risk and damage from the strongest high-pressure cold front (locally known as ?Norte?) event in terms of the residual tide from 30 years (1979?2008) of data for Progreso, Yucatan. The most im...
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Andrés Díez-Herrero and Julio Garrote
Studies looking at flood risk analysis and assessment (FRA) reviews are not customary, and they usually approach to methodological and spatial scale issues, uncertainty, mapping or economic damage topics. However, most of these reviews provide a snapshot...
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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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This study investigates the trends in economic damages caused by three types of inland floods (flash flood, flood, and heavy rain) in the United States and the variations in related hazard and vulnerability indicators between 1996 and 2016. We explore th...
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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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Kossi Komi, Barnabas A. Amisigo and Bernd Diekkrüger
Flood damage in West Africa has increased appreciably during the last two decades. Poor communities are more at risk due to the vulnerability of their livelihoods, especially in rural areas where access to services and infrastructures is limited. The aim...
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Yashon O. Ouma and Ryutaro Tateishi
This study aims at providing expertise for preparing public-based flood mapping and estimating flood risks in growing urban areas. To model and predict the magnitude of flood risk areas, an integrated Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic Inf...
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Jong Seok Lee and Hyun Il Choi
As severe flood damages have been increasing due to climate change, the flood vulnerability assessment is needed in the flood mitigation plans to cope with climate-related flood disasters. Since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessm...
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Wiwin Budiarti,Evi Gravitiani,Mujiyo Mujiyo
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Floods a main problem in Samin sub watershed, which is part of the Bengawan Solo watershed, Central Java Province. Assessment of the flood vulnerability level and its determinant causes is required as a basis information for policy makers to design a flo...
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Yelena Hernández-Atencia, Luis E. Peña, Jader Muñoz-Ramos, Isabel Rojas and Alexander Álvarez
Land-use changes produce variations in upper soil hydraulic properties and alter the hydrological response and hydraulic behavior of streams. Thus, the combined effect of variations in soil properties and current hydraulics interacts with the exposure of...
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W. M. D. C. Wijesinghe, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Sumita Tripathi, Kamal Abdelrahman, Anuj Tiwari and Mohammed S. Fnais
This research aimed to apply the geospatial techniques and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach to find vulnerable areas in terms of flooding in the Neluwa area, Sri Lanka. The study incorporated nine relevant criteria for the vulnerability classi...
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Agnes W. Brokerhof, Renate van Leijen and Berry Gersonius
This paper describes the development and trial of a method (Quick Flood Risk Scan method) to determine the vulnerable value of monuments for flood risk assessment. It was developed in the context of the European Flood Directive for the Dutch Flood Risk M...
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Nasik Najar and Kenneth M. Persson
The 2020 Sustainability Index (SI), a benchmark system, shows that 2% of the 184 municipal water and wastewater utilities (WWS) in Sweden have a good performance level (green), i.e., they meet all benchmark requirements for the ?climate adaptation and fl...
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Shuguang Liu, Weiqiang Zheng, Zhengzheng Zhou, Guihui Zhong, Yiwei Zhen and Zheng Shi
Following the huge economic losses and building damage caused by yearly flooding in China, increased attention to flood risk management within the urban and suburban areas is required. This paper provides an example of the flood risk management of suburb...
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Godwin Erima, Isa Kabenge, Antony Gidudu, Yazidhi Bamutaze and Anthony Egeru
This study was conducted to map flood inundation areas along the Manafwa River, Eastern Uganda using HECRAS integrated with the SWAT model. The study mainly sought to evaluate the predictive capacity of SWAT by comparisons with streamflow observations an...
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Roberta Paranunzio, Marco Guerrini, Edward Dwyer, Paul J. Alexander and Barry O?Dwyer
With increasing urban expansion and population growth, coastal urban areas will be increasingly affected by climate change impacts such as extreme storm events, sea level rise and coastal flooding. To address coastal inundation risk for impact studies, i...
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