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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Barbara Cardone, Valeria D?Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
One of the issues of greatest interest in urban planning today concerns the evaluation of the most vulnerable urban areas in the presence of different types of climate hazards. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy MCDA model is implemented on a GIS-bas...
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Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Liliana Pasquale, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor and Daniel P. McCrum
Transportation networks are fundamental to the efficient and safe functioning of modern societies. In the past, physical and cyber space were treated as isolated environments, resulting in transportation network being considered vulnerable only to threat...
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Zavi?a ?imac, Nina Loncar and Sanja Faivre
Coastal areas are dynamic and complex systems exposed to waves, high tides, and storm surges. Often, these areas are densely populated and have essential socio-economic values for the region and country. Any changes or disruptions can cause a tremendous ...
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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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César Augusto Terán-Chaves, Julio Martín Duarte-Carvajalino, Claudia Ipaz-Cuastumal, Alexander Vega-Amante and Sonia Mercedes Polo-Murcia
Climate variability is a major threat to maize (Zea mays) crops in Colombia, posing a risk to food security and compliance with Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the physical vulnerability of maize crops to climate vari...
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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Vasiliki I. Chalastani, Andreas Pantelidis, Elissavet Feloni, Andreas Papadimitriou, Christina N. Tsaimou, Olympia Nisiforou and Vasiliki K. Tsoukala
Small fishing harbours substantially contribute to coastal economies as they support not only fishing but also tourism activities. They are located at the land?sea interface and are considered vulnerable infrastructure affected by the increased human act...
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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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Anand Singh Rajawat, S. B. Goyal, Pradeep Bedi, Tony Jan, Md Whaiduzzaman and Mukesh Prasad
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an ecosystem composed of connected electronic items such as small sensors/actuators and other cyber-physical devices (CPDs) in medical services. When these devices are linked together, they can support patients throug...
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