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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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Haekyung Park and Dong Kun Lee
Korea experienced an unexpected drought in the southern Seoul metropolitan area from 2015 to 2017. After that, the Korean government has been drafting various policies to mitigate the effects of drought. However, these are primarily long-term drought pol...
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Linpei Zhai and Jae Eun Lee
This study aimed to explore the differences in various aspects of community disaster resilience and how to enhance disaster resilience tailored to different community types. The evaluation results were validated using the flood event that occurred in Zhe...
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Mike Louw, Sally Farrah, Max Maxwell and Sam Tomkins
For this special issue, sustainability and safety are discussed through the tropes of both material and work process substitution. As an architecture and industrial design team, we examine the potential of William McDonough?s and Michael Braungart?s ?cra...
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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Robert Idziak, Tomasz Sakowicz, Hubert Waligóra, Piotr Szulc, Leszek Majchrzak, Barbara Stachowiak and Malgorzata Neumann
Weed control in maize is usually limited to a single herbicide treatment, but the application of two or more herbicides is associated with many benefits, e.g., increasing the spectrum of control weeds, reducing the risk of damage to crops by using reduce...
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Tae Sung Cheong and Sangman Jeong
Current flood risk management projects have been criticized for their high carbon emissions, raising the need for carbon emission reduction and carbon absorption efforts to mitigate environmental impacts and achieve carbon neutrality goals. The research ...
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Namitha Viona Pais, James O?Donnell and Nalini Ravishanker
The design strategies for flood risk reduction in coastal towns must be informed by the likelihood of flooding resulting from both precipitation and coastal storm surge. This paper discusses various bivariate extreme value methods to investigate the join...
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Chi-Hieu Ngo, Seok-Ju Lee, Changhyun Kim, Minh-Chau Dinh and Minwon Park
In seaports, the automatic Grab-Type Ship Unloader (GTSU) stands out for its ability to automatically load and unload materials, offering the potential for substantial productivity improvement and cost reduction. Developing a fully automatic GTSU, howeve...
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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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