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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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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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Rabin Chakrabortty, Subodh Chandra Pal, Dipankar Ruidas, Paramita Roy, Asish Saha and Indrajit Chowdhuri
Flood, a distinctive natural calamity, has occurred more frequently in the last few decades all over the world, which is often an unexpected and inevitable natural hazard, but the losses and damages can be managed and controlled by adopting effective mea...
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Matthew Kelly, Imogen Schwarz, Mark Ziegelaar, Andrew B. Watkins and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. Australian flood risk assessments (FRAs) are mostly conducted on relatively small scales using modelling outputs. The aim of this study was to develop a novel approach of index-based...
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Mohamed Rashwan, Adel K. Mohamed, Fahad Alshehri, Sattam Almadani, Mohammed Khattab and Lamees Mohamed
The Egyptian Red Sea coast is periodically exposed to flash floods that cause severe human and economic losses. That is due to its hydro-geomorphological characteristics. Therefore, identifying flash flood hazards in these areas is critically important. ...
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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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Christos Mattas, Dimitris Karpouzos, Pantazis Georgiou and Theodoros Tsapanos
Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers? income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat of a dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for the local society,...
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Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Demetrios E. Tsesmelis and Andreas Tsatsaris
Floods are natural hazards with negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts at a local and regional level. In addition to human lives, facilities, and infrastructure, flooding is a potential threat to archaeological sites, with all the implications ...
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Gaurav Parajuli, Shankar Neupane, Sandeep Kunwar, Ramesh Adhikari and Tri Dev Acharya
Flood is one of the most frequently occurring and devastating disasters in Nepal. Several locations in Nepal are at high risk of flood, which requires proper guidance on early warning and safe evacuation of people to emergency locations through optimal r...
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Elias Dimitriou
Natural disasters have become more frequent and intense over the last decade mainly as a result of poor water and land management. Cultural sites and monuments are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters, particularly floods, while mitigation measures ...
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