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Floods and diarrheal morbidity: Evidence on the relationship, effect modifiers, and attributable risk from Sichuan Province, China

Journal of Global Health, 2022
Background Although studies have provided the estimates of floods-diarrhoea associations, little is known about the lag effect, effect modification, and attributable risk.
Tianjiao Lan, Yifan Hu, Liangliang Cheng, Lingwei Chen, X. Guan, Yili Yang, Yuming Guo, Jay Pan   +7 more
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Global Changes in 20‐Year, 50‐Year, and 100‐Year River Floods

Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
Concepts like the 100‐year flood event can be misleading if they are not updated to reflect significant changes over time. Here, we model observed annual maximum daily streamflow using a nonstationary approach to provide the first global picture of ...
L. Slater, G. Villarini, S. Archfield, D. Faulkner, R. Lamb, A. Khouakhi, Jiabo Yin   +6 more
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The 2018 Kerala floods: a climate change perspective

Climate Dynamics, 2020
In August 2018, the Indian state of Kerala received an extended period of very heavy rainfall as a result of a low-pressure system near the beginning of the month being followed several days later by a monsoon depression. The resulting floods killed over
Kieran M. R. Hunt, A. Menon
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Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Riverine plastic pollution is of global concern due to its negative impact on ecosystem health and human livelihood. Recent studies show a strong link between river discharge and plastic transport, but the role of floods is still unresolved.
C. Roebroek, S. Harrigan, T. V. van Emmerik, Calum A. Baugh, D. Eilander, C. Prudhomme, F. Pappenberger   +6 more
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The robustness of flood insurance regimes given changing risk resulting from climate change

Climate Risk Management, 2014
The changing risk of flooding associated with climate change presents different challenges for the different flood insurance market models in use around the world, which vary in respect of consumer structure and their risk transfer mechanism. A review of
Jessica Lamond, Edmund Penning-Rowsell
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Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity [PDF]

, 2014
Natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. Emergency response efforts depend upon the availability of timely information, such as information concerning the movements of affected populations.
Bauer, Jean-Martin, Castro-Correa, Carlos, Frias-Martinez, Enrique, Frias-Martinez, Vanessa, Lee, Jong Gun, Luengo-Oroz, Miguel, Morales-Guzmán, Alfredo, Oliver, Nuria, Pastor-Escuredo, David, Romanoff, Liudmyla, Rutherford, Alex, Torres-Fernández, Yolanda, Wadhwa, Amit   +12 more
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Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk

E3S Web of Conferences, 2016
Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,000 businesses and monetary loss to local economies ...
McEwen Lindsey, Wragg Amanda, Harries Tim   +2 more
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Adolescents and Floods: An Exploratory Study from Kerala [PDF]

Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2021
Background: A better understanding regarding the experiences faced by adolescents is essential to plan need based interventions and disaster preparedness. Aim and Objectives: To assess impact of floods among adolescents in Kerala.
Aby Dany Varghese, Geethu Mathew, Jaico Paulose, Ans Mary Sabu , Aleena Joseph   +4 more
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The impact of flooding on aquatic ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2018
Flooding is a major disturbance that impacts aquatic ecosystems and the ecosystem services that they provide. Predicted increases in global flood risk due to land use change and water cycle intensification will likely only increase the frequency and ...
Bennett, Elena M., Cassell, Kelsie, Hanes, Daniel M., Minor, Elizabeth C., Paerl, Hans, Raymond, Peter A., Talbot, Ceara J., Vargas, Rodrigo, Vidon, Philippe G., Wollheim, Wilfred M., Xenopoulos, Marguerite A.   +10 more
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Flooding Hazard and Vulnerability. An Interdisciplinary Experimental Approach for the Study of the 2016 West Virginia Floods

Frontiers in Water, 2021
The hydrosocial (HS) and social-hydro (SH) frameworks each attempt to understand the complexity of water and society, but they have emerged from historically disparate fields with distinctly different goals as well as methodological and epistemological ...
Martina Angela Caretta, Rodrigo Fernandez, Nicolas Zegre, Jamie Shinn   +3 more
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