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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
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Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

, 2022
Ganeswari Basumatary is a home maker with a BA-level education who speaks English, Hindi, and Assamese in addition to Boro, 41 years old at the time of recording.
Sonowal, Ria
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The benefit of high-resolution operational weather forecasts for flash flood warning [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2008
In Mediterranean Europe, flash flooding is one of the most devastating hazards in terms of loss of human life and infrastructures. Over the last two decades, flash floods have caused damage costing a billion Euros in France alone.
J. Younis, S. Anquetin, J. Thielen
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Objective analysis of envelope curves for peak floods of European and Mediterranean flash floods

, 2020
Flash floods rank highly among natural disasters in terms of number of affected people and number of fatalities. This paper analyzes the scaling of the highest flash flood peaks at multiple spatial scales for different hydro-climatic regions in Europe ...
Francesco Marra, Braud, Isabelle, William Amponsah, Hélène Roux, Marco Borga, Borga, Marco, Amponsah, William, Marchi, Lorenzo, Roux, Hélène, Lorenzo Marchi, Isabelle Braud, Marra, Francesco   +11 more
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Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok, Philibert Weenink   +2 more
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Links between Flash Floods and Hydrogeomorphic Approach: A Bibliometric Analysis

Geofísica Internacional
Understanding the hazards associated with water requires the use of a hydrogeomorphic approach, which considers both hydrologic and geomorphic aspects. In recent decades, research on flash floods has increasingly adopted this approach.
Dulce Sonia Oreano Hernández, Manuel Mendoza, Juan Alfredo Hernández Guerrero, Teodoro Carlón Allende   +3 more
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Capitalizing flood risk protective measures in residential real estate

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study utilizes 1.4 million residential transactions incorporating flood hazard estimates derived from a nationwide elevation model and hydrological data to examine the role of flood protections to mitigate the negative impact of flood risk on home prices.
Muhammad Ramzan Kalhoro, Arne Johan Pollestad, Michael J. Seiler, Ole Jakob Sønstebø   +3 more
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Flash Floods Hazard to the Settlement Network versus Land Use Planning (Lublin Upland, East Poland)

Applied Sciences
There has been an increase in the frequency of hazards associated with meteorological and hydrological phenomena. One of them is flash floods occurring episodically in areas of concentrated runoff—valleys without permanent drainage.
Leszek Gawrysiak, Bogusława Baran-Zgłobicka, Wojciech Zgłobicki   +2 more
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Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

, 2015
Flash floods represent a frequently recurring natural phenomenon in the Tatra Mountains. On the northern slopes of the mountain chain, located in Poland, ongoing and expected future changes in climate are thought to further increase the adverse impacts ...
Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio, Lempa, M., Kaczka, R.J., Janecka, K., Stoffel, Markus, Czajka, B.   +5 more
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
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