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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
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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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RAPID EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT OF NATIONWIDE RIVER FLOOD FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016 considerably increased. For flood disaster risk reduction, it is important to identify and characterize flood area, locations (particularly lowland along rivers), and durations.
Y. Kwak +5 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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Rethinking flood risk communication [PDF]
Natural Hazards, 2018 Flooding is a serious hazard across Europe, with over 200 major floods documented in the last two decades. Over this period, flood management has evolved, with a greater responsibility now placed on at-risk communities to understand their risk and take protective action to develop flood resilience.
E. Rollason +3 more
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Riparian Corridors Encroachment and Flood Risk Assessment in Ile-Ife: A GIS Perspective [PDF]
, 2015 The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Recent development and expansion of paved surfaces as a result of urban growth has resulted in encroachment of riparian corridors, the immediate effect of which poses flood risk to ...
Alaigba, Deborah B. +2 more
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Health Risks of Flood Disasters
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018 Floods are the most common natural disaster occurring worldwide, with their impact expected to grow in the future due to the effects of climate change and population shift. Floodwaters pose immediate dangers to human health, but also long-term effects resulting from displacement and worsened living conditions.
Paterson, David L. +2 more
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Planning in urban flood prone areas: Focus on six principles to reduce urban vulnerability
E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 CEPRI’s thinking on the subject begins with the postulate that in densely urbanised cities the future of flood prone areas cannot be reduced to two alternatives: not constructing or continuing to construct as was done over the past decades, i.e.
Moreau Anne-Laure
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Applied Water Science, 2018 Globally the average annual loss of reservoir capacity is approximately 1%. Pakistan is confronting major issue of sedimentation which is continuously depleting the useful storage of reservoirs.
Mubashar Ali, Abdul Sattar Shakir
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The use of MOGREPS ensemble rainfall forecasts in operational flood forecasting systems across England and Wales [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2011 Operational flood forecasting systems share a fundamental challenge: forecast uncertainty which needs to be considered when making a flood warning decision. One way of representing this uncertainty is through employing an ensemble approach.
J. Schellekens +4 more
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