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We examine the efficiency of current flood risk allocation and the use of flood easements as a means of reallocating flood risk and reducing total flood damages in large river floodplains.
Hirschi, Rick L. +2 more
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The Frontiersmen as an Object of Czech Nationalism 1918–1935
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of the frontiersmen, that is, the Czech minority border communities, as a part of the discourse of the Czech nationalist movement. Via the example of the Czechoslovak National Democracy party, it traces the frontiersmen on two levels.
Dominik Šípoš
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From flood science to flood policy: The Foresight Future Flooding Project, seven years on. [PDF]
, 2013 The Foresight Future Flooding (FFF) project researched flood risk in the UK to the year 2100 for central government, using scenarios and a national risk assessment model backed by qualitative analysis from panels of some 45 senior scientists. The purpose
Penning-Rowsell, Edmund +7 more
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract Women remain underrepresented in thermal physiology research, particularly within studies examining physiological adaptation to hot environments. Among the limited research that includes female participants, few studies have appropriately classified menstrual status of their participants or rigorously accounted for ovarian hormone influences ...
Jessica A. Mee, Tessa R. Flood
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Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.Buruli ulcer is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and its toxin, mycolactone. Disease outcomes are influenced by biological, environmental, and social determinants. Biological factors include immune response and lesion severity. Environmental factors include aquatic exposure, rainfall, flooding, and ecological changes.
Gudisa Bereda
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
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27 Mile Wash flood plain delineation study
, 1992 : This report describes the hydrologic and hydraulic analysis. Development in the lower end of the watershed has occurred without knowledge of the floodplain's characteristics.Special study (Pima County Regional Flood Control District (Ariz.)) ; 22PDF ...
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Making sociotechnical doable: Cross‐disciplinary translations into engineering education
Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 115, Issue 4, October 2026.Abstract Background Engineering education research (EER) increasingly invokes the “sociotechnical,” yet the term travels across science and technology studies (STS), engineering studies, and EER in uneven ways. As EER faces shifting political and institutional pressures, understanding how concepts migrate across disciplinary boundaries offers insight ...
Desen S. Özkan +2 more
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Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association
, 2018 Rob Rash PE, PLS Executive Vice President World’s Third Largest Watershed Drainage Basin for 41% of the United States St. Francis Levee District Created in 1893 by State Legislature Protects Seven Counties – Mississippi (5), Crittenden (4), Craighead ...
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