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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people worldwide in the last 35 years. We study large urban floods using spatially detailed inundation maps and night lights data spanning the globe’s cities.
Kocornik-Mina, Adriana +3 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 approach has been the goal in recent studies. This study used a detailed bibliometric analysis of keywords,
Lihong Wang +7 more
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Groundwater flood or groundwater-induced flood? [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 2012 A number of ‘groundwater flood’ events have been recorded over the Chalk aquifer in southern England since the 1994 occurrence at Chichester, Sussex. Reporting of this event and subsequent groundwater floods indicates that there are two types of groundwater flood event. Type 1 is the true groundwater flood in which the water table elevation rises above
Robins, N.S., Finch, J.W.
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Floods and Flood Protection in Mesopotamia
, 2020 Mesopotamia is a land where floods have occurred very frequently. Many destructive floods had been registered by historians, who noted also the food control schemes used in those times. Over history, many structures were built and managed, but this work was taken up again by the General Directorate of Irrigation which was formed in 1917 to manage ...
Abdullah, Mukhalad +4 more
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“The Mammoth and the Flood.” [PDF]
Nature, 1887 IN the notice which you have given of my book, which you are good enough to say is, apart from its theories, a valuable work of reference, I should have been more gratified if you had devoted a little space either to stating my arguments or to refuting them, instead of indulging in a rhetorical wail over my backsliding from the orthodox ways of ...
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Engineering, 2017 The possible mitigation of floods by dams and the risk to dams from floods are key problems. The People’s Republic of China is now leading world dam construction with great success and efficiency. This paper is devoted to relevant experiences from other countries, with a particular focus on lessons from accidents over the past two centuries and on new ...
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