Assessment of the Preparedness for Flood Protection of Municipalities in Presov Region Based on the Questionnaire Survey. [PDF]
Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2019 Monitoring of floods with the ultimate aim of predicting them, and managing the rescue and rehabilitation operations during and after the calamity, has been a subject of discussion of various forums.
Vlasta Ondrejka HARBULAKOVA +2 more
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Analyzing the Effects and Costs of Flood Protection Measures for Buildings
Journal of korea Planners Association, 2015 Sang Young Shin +2 more
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Resilience and adaptation of small and medium-sized enterprises to flood risk [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose – The UK has experienced a number of flood events in recent years, and the intensity and frequency of such events are forecast to further increase in future due to changing climatic conditions.
Ingirige, MJB, Wedawatta, GSD
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Choice of household adaptation strategies to flood risk management in Accra, Ghana
City and Environment Interactions, 2019 In this paper, we discuss the psychological and socio-economic factors as well as the constraints that inhibit private precautionary flood-risk mitigation measures among urban households in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana within the ...
Daniel Kwabena Twerefou +3 more
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Operational flood management under large-scale extreme conditions, using the example of the Middle Elbe [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2010 In addition to precautionary or technical flood protection measures, short-term strategies of the operational management, i.e. the initiation and co-ordination of preventive measures during and/or before a flood event are crucially for the reduction of ...
A. Kron +13 more
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Strategies for Water Security and Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
中国工程科学, 2022 Working together on protection instead of excessive development is the key strategy for promoting the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It is necessary to tackle principal contradictions with targeted measures in the process of
Hu Chunhong , Zhang Shuanghu
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Natural disasters and governmental aid : is there a charity hazard? [PDF]
, 2017 In the aftermath of natural disasters, governments frequently provide financial aid for affected households. This policy can have adverse effects if individuals anticipate it and forgo private precaution measures.
Andor, Mark +2 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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Investigation of Flood Management and Mitigation Measures in Ungauged NATURA Protected Watersheds [PDF]
Hydrology, 2021 The aim of this study is to investigate the flood management and mitigation measures in ungauged NATURA protected watersheds. The examined watersheds are located in one the most European significant NATURA areas (Prespa Natural Park North Greece). SCS-CN model was applied to perform the hydrological modeling for extreme rainfalls of 50, 100 and 1000 ...
Aristeidis Kastridis +2 more
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Do flood risk perceptions provide useful insights for flood risk management? Findings from central Vietnam [PDF]
, 2012 Following the renewed attention for non-structural flood risk reduction measures implemented at the household level, there has been an increased interest in individual flood risk perceptions. The reason for this is the commonly-made assumption that flood
Botzen +38 more
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