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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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Manuel Nhangumbe, Andrea Nascetti and Yifang Ban
Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. Although the vulnerability varies from region to region, all countries are susceptible to flooding. Mozambique was hit by several cyclones in the last few decades, and in 2019, after cyclon...
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Yuewei Hou, Yongping Wei, Shuanglei Wu and Jinghan Li
Flooding has become one of the most dangerous and expensive disasters due to urbanization and climate change. Tools for assessing flood impact are required to support the shift of flood mitigation management from post-disaster recovery and reconstruction...
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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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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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Maryam Nasim and Sujeeva Setunge
The structural safety and serviceability during extreme weather, such as floods and storms, is critical. Due to global warming in the last decades, the increase in the intensity of natural disasters, i.e., flood loading and the durability of the road str...
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Zafeiria Theodosopoulou, Ioannis M. Kourtis, Vasilis Bellos, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, Chryssy Potsiou and Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Post-disaster flood risk assessment is extremely difficult owing to the great uncertainties involved in all parts of the assessment exercise, e.g., the uncertainty of hydrologic?hydraulic models and depth?damage curves. In the present study, a robust and...
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Georgios Mitsopoulos, Michalis Diakakis, Aristeides Bloutsos, Efthymios Lekkas, Evangelos Baltas and Anastasios Stamou
We pose the following research question: ?what is the effect of flood protection works on flood risk?? To answer this question, we developed a flood risk assessment method that combines the typical hazard assessment via integrated hydrological and hydrod...
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Shuguang Liu, Weiqiang Zheng, Zhengzheng Zhou, Guihui Zhong, Yiwei Zhen and Zheng Shi
Following the huge economic losses and building damage caused by yearly flooding in China, increased attention to flood risk management within the urban and suburban areas is required. This paper provides an example of the flood risk management of suburb...
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Taigang Zhang, Weicai Wang, Tanguang Gao and Baosheng An
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a typical glacier-related hazard in high mountain regions. In recent decades, glacial lakes in the Himalayas have expanded rapidly due to climate warming and glacial retreat. Some of these lakes are unstable, and m...
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