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Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures -- lessons learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002 [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2005 Building houses in inundation areas is always a risk, since absolute flood protection is impossible. Where settlements already exist, flood damage must be kept as small as possible.
H. Kreibich +4 more
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Risk Analysis, 2019 This study offers insights into factors of influence on the implementation of flood damage mitigation measures by more than 1,000 homeowners who live in flood‐prone areas in New York City. Our theoretical basis for explaining flood preparedness decisions
W. Botzen +3 more
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Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2012 Dhaka is one of the largest megacities in the world and its population is growing rapidly. Due to its location on a deltaic plain, the city is extremely prone to detrimental flooding, and risks associated with this are expected to increase further in the coming years due to global climate change impacts as well as the high rate of urbanization the ...
Haque, Anika Nasra +2 more
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Flood risk management objectives and Romanian catalogue of potential measures for flood prevention, protection and mitigation [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 In order to draw up the Flood Risk Management Plans, in Romania have been identified two types of objectives: strategic and operational. In defining the strategic objectives of flood risk management for Romania, the approach agreed at the ICPDR was taken
Radulescu Daniela +3 more
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How changing sea level extremes and protection measures alter coastal flood damages [PDF]
Water Resources Research, 2013 Key Points Effect of sea level rise and flood protection on coastal flood damages Analytic relations for the expected annual damage and its variability Universal applicability due to generality of approach
Boettle, M., Rybski, D., Kropp, J.
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The determinants affecting the intention of urban residents to prepare for flood risk in China [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2022 In the context of global warming and China's disaster response patterns, it is critical to understand how to promote the effectiveness of household flood protection measures among the public.
T. Wang +10 more
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Systematization of floods and anti-flood measures
Меліорація і водне господарство, 2022 The problem of floods and conceptual issues of flood protection based on system analysis was considered. It is well-known that floods are among the most dangerous natural phenomena that have accompanied mankind since ancient times.
V. I. Petrochenko, O. V. Petrochenko
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Identification and model based assessment of the potential water retention caused by land-use changes [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2007 The extreme summer flood in the Elbe River watershed initiated a debate on the role of forest conversion and afforestation as measures for preventive flood protection.
A. Wahren +4 more
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 . Urban flooding is a major challenge for many megacities in low-elevation coastal zones (LECZs), especially in Southeast Asia. In these regions, the effects of environmental stressors overlap with rapid urbanization, which significantly aggravates the ...
Leon Scheiber +7 more
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Flood damages assessment – case study [PDF]
Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2018 The article deals with the resolution of the problem of managing flood risk with the aim of effective management focusing on reducing flood risks and thus increasing the measure of flood protection. It is elaborated in the sense of currently valid Slovak
M. ZELEŇÁKOVÁ, L. GAŇOVÁ
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