Results 11 to 20 of about 227 (177)

PROTOCOL: The Impact of Relocation Processes on Populations Facing Socio-Territorial Inequities: A Scoping Review Protocol: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Campbell Syst Rev
ABSTRACT Relocation processes are increasingly considered local adaptations to flooding. While relocation can offer many benefits, it also leads to socio‐economic and socio‐psychological consequences. Moreover, it tends to place greater pressure on populations experiencing socio‐territorial inequities compared to other households.
Chagnon P, Pierre-Paul A, Cloutier G, Demers-Desmarais M.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Flood risk mapping in southwestern Nova Scotia: Perceptions and concerns

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 499-512, Winter / hiver 2023., 2023
Abstract Flood risk mapping allows for informed decision making regarding personal and community planning. Resistance to flood risk mapping can be driven by potential decline of property values. This paper explores resistance to flood risk mapping through the lens of climax thinking.
Samantha C. Howard, Kate Sherren
wiley   +1 more source

The “Environment Making State” and Climate Change: The French “Cat Nat” Reinsurance Scheme Under Strain

Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 506-526, March 2023., 2023
Abstract In 2012, SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, sued the French state, challenging a public–private natural disaster insurance scheme, called the “cat nat” regime. It campaigned in favour of a “real” natural disaster insurance market. The purpose of this paper is to grasp the logic of this litigation.
Razmig Keucheyan
wiley   +1 more source

Managing residual flood risk behind levees: Comparing USA, France, and Quebec (Canada)

Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022., 2022
Abstract Although hydraulic infrastructure such as levees remain important for flood risk management in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada), there is increasing emphasis on nonstructural measures, such as regulatory flood maps, to reduce exposure and vulnerability, for example, preventing people from building in high hazard areas.
Anna Serra‐Llobet, Rémy Tourment, Antonin Montané, Thomas Buffin‐Belanger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexibility as a strategy to cope with uncertain water supply in spate irrigation*

Irrigation and Drainage, Volume 70, Issue 5, Page 1298-1313, December 2021., 2021
Abstract Unpredictable flash floods in ephemeral rivers are the water source for spate irrigation systems. An important element in the success and sustainability of spate irrigation systems is their ability to cope with highly uncertain water supply and high sediment load.
Eiman Fadul, Charlotte de Fraiture, Ilyas Masih   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does flood risk information held within at risk population always have a positive impact? An evaluation of the effects of French regulatory tools in Orleans

E3S Web of Conferences, 2016
French law on major risk preventive information for population setup the objective to make the citizen able to act for his own safety and to participate through his behaviour to the civil security.
Jadot Julien, Gemon Cathy, Richard Isabelle, Bauduceau Nicolas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilisation d'imagerie satellitaire et d'un Modèle Numérique d'Altitude pour la cartographie des zones à risque d'inondation sur le littoral méditerranéen de Saïdia (Nord-est du Maroc)

Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, 2014
Cette étude vise à établir une carte du risque inondation sur la plaine côtière de Saïdia située sur le littoral méditerranéen du Nord Est du Maroc. Cette plaine est limitée au Sud par les plateaux des Ouled Mansour aux formes vigoureuses et incisés par ...
Mounia Mouzouri, Zoulikha Irzi, Abdelhak Essaddek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Pléiades HR data to understand and monitor a dynamic socio-ecological system: China's Poyang lake

Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, 2015
Le lac Poyang, première réserve d'eau douce de Chine, est un lac de moussons présentant de fortes variations de surfaces en eau entre la saison sèche, novembre-mars, et la saison humide juin-septembre.
Claire Huber, Fengshan Li, Xijun Lai, Sadri Haouet, Arnaud Durand, Suzanne Butler, James Burnham, Claire Tinel, Liu Yizhen, Haiming Qin, Hervé Yésou   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts socio-économiques et environnementaux des risques d’inondation dans le bassin versant de l’Oti au Togo (Afrique de l’Ouest)

VertigO, 2023
The Oti River watershed, in Togo, is currently confronted with climate variability phenomena characterised by recurrent flooding events that weaken human and environmental systems.
Dambré Koungbanane, Faya Lemou, Minkilabe Djangbedja, Henri S. Vodounon Totin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Témoignage d'acteurs - Urbanisme et risque « inondation », le cas de l’Île-de-France [PDF]

Sciences, Eaux & Territoires, 2017
Des événements tels qu’une inondation majeure à l’échelle des bassins de la Seine ou de la Loire, ou un séisme dans le Sud de la France constituent, par leurs conséquences humaines, économiques, sociales et environnementales, les principaux risques d ...
FAYTRE, Ludovic
doaj