Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Conservation decision-makers and practitioners increasingly strive for efficient and equitable outcomes for people and nature. However, environmental management programs commonly benefit some groups of people more than others, and very little is known ...
Jaramar Villarreal‐Rosas +4 more
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Environmental Impact Assessment and Hydraulic Modelling of Different Flood Protection Measures
Water, 2021 The most appropriate method to protect settlements and economically important sites from flood hazard, is the implementation of flood protection measures in stream catchments and protected localities, which contribute to reduce the peak flow and ...
A. Šoltész +4 more
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Risk-based flood protection planning under climate change and modeling uncertainty: a pre-alpine case study [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 Planning authorities are faced with a range of questions when planning flood protection measures: is the existing protection adequate for current and future demands or should it be extended? How will flood patterns change in the future? How should the
B. Dittes +5 more
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Jurnal Ilmu Dasar, 2020 Flooding is a natural disaster that often occurs, it is not surprising that floods are one of the problems that must be resolved in various countries, one of which is Indonesia. Flood is very detrimental to the public because the impact could be the loss
Diah Chaerani +4 more
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Reconstruction of flood events based on documentary data and transnational flood risk analysis of the Upper Rhine and its French and German tributaries since AD 1480 [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015 This paper presents the long-term analysis of flood occurrence along the southern part of the Upper Rhine River system and of 14 of its tributaries in France and Germany covering the period starting from 1480 BC.
I. Himmelsbach +4 more
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Dealing with Uncertainty in Flood Management Through Diversification [PDF]
, 2008 This paper shows, through a numerical example, how to develop portfolios of flood management activities that generate the highest return under an acceptable risk for an area in the central part of the Netherlands. The paper shows a method based on Modern
Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. +4 more
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Sustainable Stormwater Management: A Holistic Planning Approach for Water Sensitive Cities [PDF]
Journal of Hydraulic Structures, 2022 The planning of sustainable stormwater infrastructures for future water-sensitive cities requires new holistic methods. In the Indo-German research project SMART&WISE, a structured approach was de-veloped to improve the planning processes for water ...
Timo Dilly +4 more
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Flood risk management in Flanders: past developments and future challenges [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents the state of the art of flood risk management in Flanders, a low-lying region in the northern part of Belgium which is vulnerable to flooding.
De Maeyer, Philippe +5 more
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A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE) [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 Flood-protection levees have been built along rivers and coastlines globally. Current datasets, however, are generally confined to territorial boundaries (national datasets) and are not always easily accessible, posing limitations for hydrologic models ...
J. H. Nienhuis +4 more
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Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2023 Flood occurrence consequences are inextricably linked to the loss of human life and material damage. The latter has a direct economic impact and requires financial resources for repair or reconstruction in order to continue to provide protection.
Eleni Tzanou +2 more
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