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Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i FederalsThis article discusses flood risk management in Spanish law in light of the flood disaster that occurred in Valencia a few months ago. The starting point is climate change as the main cause of flooding, combined with human intervention, in altering the ...
Miren Sarasíbar Iriarte
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Water Policy, 2022 The significance, approaches, and instruments of knowledge and capacity development (KCD) in water management are reviewed, and priorities for the future are proposed.
G. J. Alaerts, J. M. Kaspersma
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Analysis of Flood Governance and Risk Management [PDF]
آب و توسعه پایدار, 2023 Flood governance and risk management involve measures and strategies aimed at reducing the risk of floods and managing their impacts. This process includes identifying and evaluating risks, planning and prevention, readiness for response and performance ...
M. Oskouhi, K. Esmaili, A. N. Ziaei
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Stochastic generation of spatially coherent river discharge peaks for continental event-based flood risk assessment [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019 We present a new method to generate spatially coherent river discharge peaks over multiple river basins, which can be used for continental event-based probabilistic flood risk assessment.
D. Diederen +4 more
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Invited perspectives: How machine learning will change flood risk and impact assessment [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 Increasing amounts of data, together with more computing power and better machine learning algorithms to analyse the data, are causing changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
D. Wagenaar +15 more
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Flood risk management through a resilience lens
Communications Earth & Environment, 2022 To prevent floods from becoming disasters, social vulnerability must be integrated into flood risk management. This Comment advocates that the welfare of different societal groups should be included by adding recovery capacity, impacts of beyond-design ...
Karin M. de Bruijn +8 more
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2021 Flood simulations are important for flood (fatality) risk assessment. This article provides insight into the sensitivity of flood fatality risks to the model resolution of flood simulations and to several uncertain parameters in the loss of life model ...
Anneroos R. Brussee +5 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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A review of the flood management: from flood control to flood resilience
Heliyon, 2022 Climate change and socioeconomic developments are increasing the frequency and severity of floods. Flood management is widely recognized as an effective way to reduce the adverse consequences, and a more resilient and sustainable flood management ...
Lihong Wang +7 more
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, 2014 This report is available as a free PDF download.Prepared by the Task Committee on Flood Safety Policies and Practices of ASCEIn 2005, the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina graphically reveale...
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