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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Tae Sung Cheong and Sangman Jeong
Current flood risk management projects have been criticized for their high carbon emissions, raising the need for carbon emission reduction and carbon absorption efforts to mitigate environmental impacts and achieve carbon neutrality goals. The research ...
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Heba El-Bagoury and Ahmed Gad
Flooding is a natural disaster with extensive impacts. Desert regions face altered flooding patterns owing to climate change, water scarcity, regulations, and rising water demands. This study assessed and predicted flash flood hazards by calculating disc...
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Haixia Li, Yuanyuan Yin, Jing Zhou and Fuxing Li
Drought is a natural disaster with severe global agricultural and economic impacts. Accurate drought indices are needed for improved assessment and monitoring; however, most existing drought indices poorly represent agricultural drought due to complex in...
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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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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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Shuang Lu, Jianyun Huang and Jing Wu
In the contexts of global climate change and the urbanization process, urban flooding poses significant challenges worldwide, necessitating effective rapid assessments to understand its impacts on various aspects of urban systems. This can be achieved th...
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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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Hiroyuki Miura, Masashi Matsuoka, Juan C. Reyes, Nelson Pulido, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Andrea C. Riaño, Alvaro Hurtado, Raul Rincon, Helber García and Carlos Lozano
Early disaster responses in damaged areas after a large earthquake are indispensable for stakeholders to assess and grasp the impacts such as building and infrastructure damage and disrupted community functionality as soon as possible. This study introdu...
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Maria Luisa Villani, Sonia Giovinazzi and Antonio Costanzo
Natural hazards are increasingly threatening our communities; hence it is imperative to provide communities with reliable information on possible impacts of such disasters, and on resilience measures that can be adopted to recover from disasters. To incr...
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