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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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Rethinking Flood Risk Management
, 2021 University of Liverpool researchers from the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics explain how embracing a new approach to flood risk management across socio-economic environments can help to address the impacts of climate change and reduce ...
Henshaw, Kira, Constantinescu, Corina
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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 Cork City Flood of November 2009 : lessons for flood risk management and climate change adaptation at the urban scale [PDF]
, 2011 Flood hazards are a pressing challenge in several Irish and European cities and their impacts seem likely to intensify as climate change brings sea level rise, changes in storm patterns and increases in rainfall.
James M. Jeffers +2 more
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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2023 In the context of flood risk management, the application of spatial planning is challenging. This article specifies the position of spatial planning in the context of flood risk management in Slovakia.
Solín Ľubomír +1 more
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Analysis of Hydrological Sensitivity for Flood Risk Assessment
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 In order for the Indian government to maximize Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), the Brahmaputra River has played an important role in the undertaking of the Pilot Basin Study (PBS) due to the Brahmaputra River’s annual regional flooding.
Sanjay Kumar Sharma +3 more
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Effect of flood risk management methods on urban flooding: Article review
Teknika, 2021 Banjarmasin is the capital city of South Kalimantan Province and has a low topography, and is traversed by the Barito River. In addition, Banjarmasin City is also a Java Sea route, so it has a high level of vulnerability to sea-level rise.
Oryza Lhara Sari +3 more
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Justice and flood risk management: reflecting on different approaches to distribute and allocate flood risk management in Europe [PDF]
Natural Hazards, 2016 This paper compares the inherent notions of justice in four different approaches to flood risk management in Europe. As protection against flood risks becomes increasingly difficult, dilemmas of justice emerge: some benefits from flood protection measures whereas others loose.
Hartmann, T., Thaler, Thomas
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Integrated washland management for flood defence and biodiversity [PDF]
, 2004 In the context of growing interest in finding sustainable solutions to flood management in England and Wales, this study set out to determine the extent to which benefits to flood management and biodiversity can be achieved through an integrated ...
Hess, Tim M. +6 more
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The value of integrating information from multiple hazards for flood risk analysis and management [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2014 This article presents a methodology for estimating flood risk in urban areas integrating pluvial flooding, river flooding and failure of both small and large dams.
J. T. Castillo-Rodríguez +3 more
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