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Anders Skovgård Olsen, Qianqian Zhou, Jens Jørgen Linde and Karsten Arnbjerg-Nielsen
Estimating the expected annual damage (EAD) due to flooding in an urban area is of great interest for urban water managers and other stakeholders. It is a strong indicator for a given area showing how vulnerable it is to flood risk and how much can be ga...
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Giovanni Maria Ferri, Graziana Intranuovo, Domenica Cavone, Vincenzo Corrado, Francesco Birtolo, Paolo Tricase, Raffaele Fuso, Valeria Vilardi, Marilena Sumerano, Nicola L?abbate and Luigi Vimercati
Indoor radon exposure is responsible for increased incidence of lung cancer in communities. Building construction characteristics, materials, and environmental determinants are associated with increased radon concentration at specific sites. In this stud...
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Guilin Liu, Jingyi Yin, Shichun Song, Wenjin Yang, Yuhang Tian, Liping Wang and Yu Xu
In the context of the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, assessing the risk of typhoon disasters can provide significant assistance for risk control and emergency management of typhoon disasters. In this paper, based on the three-di...
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Tengfei Wang, Qing Wu, Mihai A. Diaconeasa, Xinping Yan and Ali Mosleh
A ship collision accident is one of the most dangerous and common types of maritime accidents. Traditional probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) of ship collision accidents is a methodology that can be adopted to ensure maritime safety. Nevertheless, a nee...
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Shi V. Liu, Fu-Lin Chen and Jianping Xue
An important factor in evaluating health risk of near-road air pollution is to accurately estimate the traffic-related vehicle emission of air pollutants. Inclusion of traffic parameters such as road length/area, distance to roads, and traffic volume/int...
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Francesco Serinaldi and Chris G. Kilsby
The assessment of collective risk for flood risk management requires a better understanding of the space-time characteristics of flood magnitude and occurrence. In particular, classic formulation of collective risk implies hypotheses concerning the indep...
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Francesco Serinaldi, Chris G. Kilsby
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The assessment of collective risk for flood risk management requires a better understanding of the space-time characteristics of flood magnitude and occurrence. In particular, classic formulation of collective risk implies hypotheses concerning the indep...
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Kossi Komi, Barnabas A. Amisigo, Bernd Diekkrüger and Fabien C. C. Hountondji
In the Volta River Basin, flooding has been one of the most damaging natural hazards during the last few decades. Therefore, flood frequency estimates are important for disaster risk management. This study aims at improving knowledge of flood frequencies...
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Pooja Koirala, Sudeep Thakuri, Subesh Joshi and Raju Chauhan
Soil erosion is a major issue, causing the loss of topsoil and fertility in agricultural land in mountainous terrain. Estimation of soil erosion in Nepal is essential because of its agriculture-dependent economy (contributing 36% to national GDP) and for...
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Javier Omar Castillo-Miranda,Ricardo Torres-Jadón,José Agustín García-Reynoso,Bertha E. Mar-Morales,Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Gómez,Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez
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Air pollution is a threat to cultural heritage because it accelerates the natural deterioration of monuments, palaces, churches, and archaeological ruins, which have an irreplaceable value. In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), there are 19 968 bu...
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Veronika Bacová Mitková, Dana Halmová, Pavla Pekárová and Pavol Miklánek
In hydrological practice, individual elements of the hydrological cycle are most often estimated and evaluated separately. Uncertainty in the size estimation of extrema discharges and their return period can affect the statistical assessment of the signi...
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Nathan Felipe da Silva Caldana,Luiz Gustavo Batista Ferreira,Iara da Silva,Marcelo Augusto Aguiar e Silva
The rainfall variability has a key relevance on human activities. The frequency of extreme events, such as droughts and intense rains, results in severe impacts on crops, urban activities, water resources, health and the environment on a local or regiona...
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Francesco De Paola, Maurizio Giugni, Francesco Pugliese, Antonio Annis and Fernando Nardi
Nowadays, increased flood risk is recognized as one of the most significant threats in most parts of the world, with recurring severe flooding events causing significant property and human life losses. This has entailed public debates on both the apparen...
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