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Bruno Martins, Adélia Nunes, Luciano Lourenço and Fátima Velez-Castro
São Vicente Island (Republic of Cape Verde) lies within the Sahelian zone and faces several natural hazards, one of which is flash flooding. With the purpose of understanding what factors determine flash flood risk perception, a questionnaire entitled Fl...
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Shihua Yan and Roziya Binti Ibrahim
In the milieu of escalating flood occurrences, the concept of community resilience has garnered considerable attention. A series of studies recommend a river restoration approach to encourage the participation of all relevant stakeholders to manage flood...
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Abiodun Kolawole Oyetunji, Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Emmanuel Chigozie Dike, Adeyosoye Babatunde Ayoola and Michael Ayodele Olukolajo
The ground can become saturated during prolonged downpours. If sewers and drains are unable to cope, overflows will be inevitable. This situation could affect properties that are not designed to cope with flood hazards. It is pertinent that property inve...
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Md. Sazzad Ansari, Jeroen Warner, Vibhas Sukhwani and Rajib Shaw
Bangladesh, a flat densely populated country in a dynamic delta, is vulnerable to recurring flood disasters. Various types of structural and non-structural flood risk reduction interventions have been implemented over the years to safeguard the people an...
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C. Emdad Haque, Khandakar Hasan Mahmud, David Walker and Jobaed Ragib Zaman
Being strongly influenced by the landscape of the Red River Valley, geophysical and a variety of sociodemographic and economic factors, the characteristics of floods are complex in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, which causes substantial loss and damag...
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Alexandre Pereira Santos, Juan Miguel Rodriguez-Lopez, Cleiton Chiarel and Jürgen Scheffran
How just are risk responses that worsen vulnerability in the long term? Should the urban poor be left with self-reliance when facing hazards in the Anthropocene? This research investigates urban development and vulnerability in the Anthropocene. While it...
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Carolin Klonner, Maximilian Hartmann, Rebecca Dischl, Lily Djami, Liana Anderson, Martin Raifer, Fernanda Lima-Silva, Lívia Castro Degrossi, Alexander Zipf and João Porto de Albuquerque
A worldwide increase in the number of people and areas affected by disasters has led to more and more approaches that focus on the integration of local knowledge into disaster risk reduction processes. The research at hand shows a method for formalizing ...
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Andrés Díez-Herrero and Julio Garrote
Studies looking at flood risk analysis and assessment (FRA) reviews are not customary, and they usually approach to methodological and spatial scale issues, uncertainty, mapping or economic damage topics. However, most of these reviews provide a snapshot...
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African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal?located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region?has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate drain...
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Carolin Klonner, Tomás J. Usón, Sabrina Marx, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and Bernhard Höfle
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