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Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Jacinto Estima, Jorge Marques, Ivo Gamito, Alexandre Serra, Leonardo Moura, Ana Margarida Ricardo, Luís Mendes and Rui M. L. Ferreira
Flood events are becoming more severe, causing significant problems to human communities, including physical, psychological, and material damage. For both flood forecasting in emergency response situations and flood mapping, georeferencing and data curat...
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Dinh Thi Hong Huyen, Hoang Thi Thanh Ha and Michel Occello
Emergency evacuation is of paramount importance in protecting human lives and property while enhancing the effectiveness and preparedness of organizations and management agencies in responding to emergencies. In this paper, we propose a method for evacua...
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Binita Ghimire, Gehendra Kharel, Esayas Gebremichael and Linyin Cheng
Extreme precipitation has become more frequent and intense with time and space. Infrastructure design tools such as Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves still rely on historical precipitation and stationary assumptions, risking current and future ur...
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Yini Zhu, Wenqing Ma, Hongxiang Feng, Guiyun Liu and Pengjun Zheng
With the rapid development of international trade and the fast growth of port freight volumes, the risk of ship pollution in marine areas has significantly increased. Frequent ship pollution accidents seriously endanger marine ecosystems and are extremel...
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Nathalie Sänger, Christine Heinzel and Simone Sandholz
The current understanding of critical health infrastructure resilience is still dominated by a technical perspective. Reality however is different, as past events including the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed: emergency situations are only rarely exclusi...
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Alexandru Anichiti, Larisa-Loredana Dragolea, Georgia-Daniela Tacu Hâr?an, Alina-Petronela Haller and Gina Ionela Butnaru
This study investigates safety and security from the perspective of Romanian tourists by assessing the level of importance that tourists give to safety and security depending on the level of classification of the services they experienced and the generat...
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Gregorio Rosario Michel, Fernando Manzano Aybar, Leris Neris Guzmán, Christian Villalta Calderón, Teodoro Jiménez Durán and Joep Crompvoets
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) increasingly face natural hazards that overwhelm their capacity to generate and share spatial-information to reduce human?economic losses. Under such circumstances, the emergency mapping team (EMT) enables a common o...
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Elias Willberg, Olle Järv, Tuomas Väisänen and Tuuli Toivonen
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis resulted in unprecedented changes in the spatial mobility of people across societies due to the restrictions imposed. This also resulted in unexpected mobility and population dynamics that created a challeng...
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Giorgio Anfuso, Matteo Postacchini, Diana Di Luccio and Guido Benassai
Coastal area constitutes a vulnerable environment and requires special attention to preserve ecosystems and human activities therein. To this aim, many studies have been devoted both in past and recent years to analyzing the main factors affecting coasta...
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Aikaterini P. Kyprioti, Ehsan Adeli, Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Joannes J. Westerink and Hendrik L. Tolman
During landfalling tropical storms, predictions of the expected storm surge are critical for guiding evacuation and emergency response/preparedness decisions, both at regional and national levels. Forecast errors related to storm track, intensity, and si...
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