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Telvio H. S. Francisco, Osvaldo V. C. Menezes, André L. A. Guedes, Gladys Maquera, Dácio C. V. Neto, Orlando C. Longo, Christine K. Chinelli and Carlos A. P. Soares
Urban drainage systems play an important role in the complex ecosystem of cities and are often subject to challenges that hinder their functioning. Although identifying these challenges is essential for developing policies and actions to improve drainage...
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Giulia Casagrande, Annelore Bezzi, Saverio Fracaros, Davide Martinucci, Simone Pillon, Paolo Salvador, Stefano Sponza and Giorgio Fontolan
The advantages derived from the use of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are well-established: they are cost-effective and easy to use. There are numerous environmental applications, particularly when monitoring contexts characterized by rapid morphologica...
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Duncan M. FitzGerald, Zoe J. Hughes, Alice Staro, Christopher J. Hein, Md Mohiuddin Sakib, Ioannis Y. Georgiou and Alyssa Novak
When longshore transport systems encounter tidal inlets, complex mechanisms are involved in bypassing sand to downdrift barriers. Here, this process is examined at Plum Island Sound and Essex Inlets, Massachusetts, USA. One major finding from this study ...
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Tori Tomiczek, Elizabeth J. Sciaudone, Liliana Velásquez-Montoya, Elizabeth Smyre, Anna Wargula, Kelly Fawcett and Joshua Torres
Coastal highways along narrow barrier islands are vulnerable to flooding due to ocean and bay-side events, which create hazardous travel conditions and may restrict access to surrounding communities. This study investigates the vulnerability of a segment...
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Omar M. Nofal, John W. van de Lindt, Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields and Kevin Crofton
The growing number of flood disasters worldwide and the subsequent catastrophic consequences of these events have revealed the flood vulnerability of communities. Flood impact predictions are essential for better flood risk management which can result in...
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Uwe Dornbusch
Sea level rise increases the pressure on many coastlines to retreat landwards which will lead to coastlines previously held in position through management, being allowed to retreat where this is no longer affordable or sustainable. Barrier beaches have h...
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Ebrahim Alamatian, Sara Dadar and Bojan Ðurin
Dams are one of the most important hydraulic structures. In view of unrecoverable damages occurring after a dam failure, analyzing a dams? break is necessary. In this study, a dam located in Iran is considered. According to adjacent tourist and entertain...
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Ziyu Chen, Philip Orton and Thomas Wahl
Gated storm surge barriers are being studied by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for coastal storm risk management for the New York City metropolitan area. Surge barrier gates are only closed when storm tides exceeding a specific ?trigge...
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Wilmer Rey, Miranda Martínez-Amador, Paulo Salles, E. Tonatiuh Mendoza, Miguel A. Trejo-Rangel, Gemma L. Franklin, Pablo Ruiz-Salcines, Christian M. Appendini and Julián Quintero-Ibáñez
This study applies three different methods to assess the flood risk and damage from the strongest high-pressure cold front (locally known as ?Norte?) event in terms of the residual tide from 30 years (1979?2008) of data for Progreso, Yucatan. The most im...
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Luca Cavallaro, Claudio Iuppa and Enrico Foti
The Venice lagoon is one of the most important areas in Italy because of its history and its particular structure and form. In order to defend Venice and other towns within the lagoon from severe floods, the Italian Government promotes a project that inc...
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