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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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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 +2 more
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Climate changes and their impact on current and future threats to the Podkarpackie Province
Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020 Currently, a forward-looking approach to threat assessment in a particular region is important. This approach applies especially to organizational units that are in the structure of offices at the basic level–the municipality, city and poviat. Currently,
Fryderyk Czekaj
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Sub-daily simulation of mountain flood processes based on the modified soil water assessment tool (SWAT) model [PDF]
, 2019 Floods not only provide a large amount of water resources, but they also cause serious disasters. Although there have been numerous hydrological studies on flood processes, most of these investigations were based on rainfall-type floods in plain areas ...
De Maeyer, Philippe +6 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Flooding on 1 of the Solomon Islands precipitated a nationwide epidemic of diarrhea that spread to regions unaffected by flooding and caused >6,000 cases and 27 deaths.
Forrest K. Jones +10 more
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Measuring Floodplain Inundation Using Diel Amplitude of Temperature
Sensors, 2020 Assessment of inundation patterns across large and remote floodplains is challenging and costly. Inexpensive loggers that record the damping of the diel amplitude of temperature (DAT) when submerged compared to overlying air can indirectly indicate ...
Jorge E. Celi, Stephen K. Hamilton
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Editorial: Special Issue Managing Responsibilities for Climate Change Risks
Utrecht Law Review, 2022 The Special Issue brings together contributions examining concrete case studies on managing responsibilities for climate change risks around the world.
Katherine Owens, Natalie Dobson
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Holocene high floods on the Planina Polje, Classical Dinaric Karst, Slovenia
Acta Carsologica, 2012 The Planina Polje is located in the northwestern part of Notranjsko Podolje, Slovenia. Annual floods cover the flattened floor of the polje at elevation 445 m a.s.l. and reach the depth of approximately 8 meters.
Uroš Stepišnik +3 more
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Open Geosciences, 2021 The repetitive and destructive nature of floods across the globe causes significant economic damage, loss of human lives, and leaves the people living in flood-prone areas with fear and insecurity.
Kuntla Sai Kiran
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The sharing of flood waters in the Ksours of Ghardaia and Berriane (Algeria) hydraulic study [PDF]
, 2019 The present article deals with two systems of sharing flood waters used in the oases of Ghardaïa and Berriane. Based on bibliographic work, and data collection and investigations performed during the period between 2006 and 2018 near the Ksourian ...
Khelifa, Ali, Remini, Boualem
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