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Leonardo Bayas-Jiménez, F. Javier Martínez-Solano, Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey and Fulvio Boano
Over time, cities have grown, developing various activities and accumulating important economic assets. Floods are a problem that worry city administrators who seek to make cities more resilient and safer. This increase in flood events is due to differen...
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Edwin Pino-Vargas, Eduardo Chávarri-Velarde, Eusebio Ingol-Blanco, Fabricio Mejía, Ana Cruz and Alissa Vera
Global projections of climate change indicate negative impacts on hydrological systems, with significant changes in precipitation and temperature in many parts of the world. As a result, floods and droughts are expected. This article discusses the potent...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Zohreh Rajabi and Nitin Muttil
Agricultural damage due to floods in the Indus basin?s fertile land has been the most damaging natural disaster in Pakistan so far. Earthen dikes are protecting the vast areas of the floodplain from regular flooding. However, the floodplain is attractive...
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Yeon-Moon Choo, Sang-Bo Sim and Yeon-Woong Choe
The annual average rainfall in Busan area is increasing, causing frequent flooding of Busan?s Suyeong and Oncheon rivers. Due to the increase in urbanized areas and climate change, it is difficult to reduce flood damage. Therefore, new methods are needed...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significan...
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Do Thi Chinh, Nguyen Viet Dung, Animesh K. Gain and Heidi Kreibich
Vietnam has a long history and experience with floods. Flood risk is expected to increase further due to climatic, land use and other global changes. Can Tho City, the cultural and economic center of the Mekong delta in Vietnam, is at high risk of floodi...
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Toon Haer,Wouter Botzen,Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo,Carline Cusell,Philip J. Ward
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Economic losses as a result of natural hazards have been rising over the past few decades due to socio-economic development and perhaps climate change. This upwards trend is projected to continue, highlighting the need for adequate adaptation strategies....
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Alex J. Woods, K. David Coates, Martin Watts, Vanessa Foord and Erin I. Holtzman
We examine the direct effects of multiple disturbance agents on individual tree development and stand productivity in 15?40-year-old managed forests in British Columbia, Canada. Our primary interest was to establish a baseline assessment of damage in the...
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Alvaro Sordo-Ward, Ivan Gabriel-Martin, Paola Bianucci, Luis Garrote
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The study presents a method which can be used to define real-time operation rules for gated spillways (named the K-Method). The K-Method is defined to improve the performance of the Volumetric Evaluation Method (VEM), by adapting it to the particular con...
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Javier Omar Castillo-Miranda,Ricardo Torres-Jadón,José Agustín García-Reynoso,Bertha E. Mar-Morales,Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Gómez,Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez
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Air pollution is a threat to cultural heritage because it accelerates the natural deterioration of monuments, palaces, churches, and archaeological ruins, which have an irreplaceable value. In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), there are 19 968 bu...
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