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Alessandro Allodi, Letizia Angelo, Fabio Bordini, Monica Branchi, Elisa Comune, Mauro Del Longo, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mauro Noberini, Filippo Pizzera, Alessio Pugliese, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Fabrizio Tonelli, Franca Tugnoli and Enrica Zenoni
Water is a fundamental resource for human life and nature; flood management, water supply systems and water protection policies are a few examples of equally important disciplines across the whole hydrological cycle. The present work focuses on the creat...
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Extreme weather, climate-induced events that are episodic (e.g., hurricane, heatwave) or chronic (e.g., sea-level rise, temperature change) in nature, is occurring with increasing frequency and severity. This places a growing and time-sensitive need on t...
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Andrew D. Quinn, Emma J. S. Ferranti, Simon P. Hodgkinson, Anson C. R. Jack, John Beckford and John M. Dora
Extreme weather damages and disrupts transport infrastructure in a multitude of ways. Heavy rainfall and ensuing landslides or flooding may lead to road or rail closures; extreme heat can damage road surfaces, or cause tracks, signalling or electronic eq...
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Minna Räikkönen, Riitta Molarius, Kari Mäki, Kim Forssén, Peter Petiet and Albert Nieuwenhuijs
The resilience of critical infrastructure (CI) to extreme weather events (EWE) is one of the most demanding challenges for all stakeholders in modern society. Although partial risk reduction is feasible through the introduction and implementation of vari...
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Minna Räikkönen, Riitta Molarius, Kari Mäki, Kim Forssén, Peter Petiet, Albert Nieuwenhuijs
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The resilience of critical infrastructure (CI) to extreme weather events (EWE) is one of the most demanding challenges for all stakeholders in modern society. Although partial risk reduction is feasible through the introduction and implementation of vari...
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Ivana ?tulec
Non-catastrophic weather risk is gaining importance as climate change becomes more pronounced and economic crisis forces companies to strengthen their cost control. Recent literature proposes weather derivatives as flexible weather risk mitigating tools....
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Torgrim Log, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle and Maria-Monika Metallinou
In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not ...
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Lu Zong and Manuela Ender
In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the mo...
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Jicheng Yang, Letian Wu and Jian Zheng
Ship weather routing has always been an important issue in the research field of navigation, and many scholars have been devoted to this research for a long time. To study the route strategies of different shipping companies, this paper proposes an impro...
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M. Majodina, J. O. Botai, H. Rautenbach
Meteorological factors have an influence on global energy systems. This study reviewed some of the latest research contributions from other global studies on climate change impacts, energy transportation and international collaboration in the energy-mete...
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Helen E. Dahlke, Zachary M. Easton, Daniel R. Fuka, M. Todd Walter and Tammo S. Steenhuis
In the northeastern United States (U.S.), watersheds and ecosystems are impacted by nonpoint source pollution (NPS) from agricultural activity. Where agricultural fields coincide with runoff-producing areas?so called hydrologically sensitive areas (HSA)?...
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Esther Sánchez-Almodóvar, Jorge Olcina-Cantos, Javier Martí-Talavera, Antonio Prieto-Cerdán and Ascensión Padilla-Blanco
One of the principal challenges for cities on the Mediterranean coast is the management of urban runoff after episodes of intense rainfall. This problem is aggravated by the effects of climate change, with the increase in the frequency and intensity of e...
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Thi Tam Duong, Tom Brewer, Jo Luck and Kerstin Zander
Farmers around the world face and manage a wide range of enterprise-related risks. These risks are increasing due to a range of factors including globalisation, increased trade in agricultural products, and climate change, jeopardising agricultural enter...
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Thi Tam Duong, Tom Brewer, Jo Luck and Kerstin Zander
Farmers around the world face and manage a wide range of enterprise-related risks. These risks are increasing due to a range of factors including globalisation, increased trade in agricultural products, and climate change, jeopardising agricultural enter...
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Yekaterina Y. Kontar, John C. Eichelberger, Tuyara N. Gavrilyeva, Viktoria V. Filippova, Antonina N. Savvinova, Nikita I. Tananaev and Sarah F. Trainor
Every spring, riverine communities throughout the Arctic face flood risk. As the river ice begins to thaw and break up, ice jams?accumulation of chunks and sheets of ice in the river channel, force melt water and ice floes to back up for dozens of kilome...
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Donglan Su, Zhongyin Guo, Zhizyong Li, Yafeng Zhou
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The effect of operation safety of expressway tunnels on operation efficiency of the expressway network is significant because tunnels are key sections in the network. In case of emergency, e.g. traffic accidents, it brings much difficulty to rescue work ...
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Robin C. Van den Honert and John McAneney
On 13th January 2011 major flooding occurred throughout most of the Brisbane River catchment, most severely in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Creek catchment (where 23 people drowned), the Bremer River catchment and in Brisbane, the state capital of Queenslan...
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Kaitano Dube
This exploratory study examined the impacts of COVID-19 and emerging challenges and opportunities from aviation recovery. Using archival and secondary data analysis, the study found that there are several challenges to aviation recovery chief among them ...
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M. Talat Odman, Ran Huang, Aditya A. Pophale, Rushabh D. Sakhpara, Yongtao Hu, Armistead G. Russell and Michael E. Chang
Prescribed burning (PB) is practiced throughout the USA, most extensively in the southeast, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the ecosystem and reducing wildfire risk. However, PB emissions contribute significantly to trace gas and particulate...
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