Promoting adaptive flood risk management: the role and potential of flood recovery mechanisms
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 There is a high potential for recovery mechanisms to be used to incentivise the uptake of flood mitigation and loss reduction measures, undertake adaptation and promote community resilience.
Priest Sally J +2 more
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Difficult encounters around "monkey cheeks": Farmers' interests and the design of flood retention areas in Thailand [PDF]
, 2019 Flood retention areas are being increasingly promoted for flood risk management. People living in these areas will accept them if their interests are taken into account.
Doorn‐Hoekveld W. +13 more
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Monitoring and anticipating floods in France
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 The State flood warning and anticipation tools in France have evolve a lot since the years 2000. This paper first presents an overview of the progress made since then. A description of the existing flood vigilance system (www.vigicrues.gouv.fr) is given,
Leleu Isabelle +8 more
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Using rainfall thresholds and ensemble precipitation forecasts to issue and improve urban inundation alerts [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016 Urban inundation forecasting with extended lead times is useful in saving lives and property. This study proposes the integration of rainfall thresholds and ensemble precipitation forecasts to provide probabilistic urban inundation forecasts. Utilization
T.-H. Yang +3 more
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Groundwater flooding within an urbanised flood plain [PDF]
, 2012 In Europe in recent years, there has been recognition of the need to better understand the risk from groundwater flooding. This recognition has been due both to the occurrence of major flooding events clearly attributable to groundwater and the inclusion
Cobby +11 more
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Flood vulnerability of critical infrastructure in Cork, Ireland
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 Recent flood events in Ireland and particularly in County Cork have caused significant disruption to health service provisions, interruption of water and power supplies, and damage to roads and other transportation infrastructure, affecting the lives of ...
de Bruijn Karin M. +4 more
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Stochastic urban pluvial flood hazard maps based upon a spatial-temporal rainfall generator [PDF]
, 2015 It is a common practice to assign the return period of a given storm event to the urban pluvial flood event that such storm generates. However, this approach may be inappropriate as rainfall events with the same return period can produce different urban ...
Leitao, JOAO +6 more
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REMOTE SENSING MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT IN SPRING CONSIDERING IRRIGATION AREA: A CASE STUDY OF DONGLEI IRRIGATION DISTRICT (PHASE II) [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 As one of the common natural disasters, drought is extremely destructive to agriculture. Drought has risen in recent years, so how to effectively monitor drought has become the focus of attention of relevant government departments.
H. Liu +8 more
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Quantitative flood hazard assessment methods: A review
Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2022 Flood hazard assessment is a fundamental step in flood risk mapping. Quantitative assessment requires hydrodynamic modelling of the flooding process in order to calculate the spatial distribution of suitable flood hazard indicators representative of ...
A. Maranzoni, M. D’Oria, Carmine Rizzo
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Rapid Flood Evaluation Systems in Taiwan Metropolitan Areas
International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology, 2011 Hydrological issues in metropolises in Taiwan have become increasingly important because the storm water sewer systems of metropolises are frequently unable to meet the requirements of the existing and future metropolitan development.
Wen-Dar Guo +3 more
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