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Social capital and community preparation for urban flooding in China [PDF]

, 2015
Social capital can enhance community resilience to environmental change. Productive and trusted relations among social actors and effectual social norms can help local residents share resources, information and risks.
Chan, FKS, Lo, AYH, Su, R, Xu, B
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Vulnerability Identification and Cascading Failure Spatiotemporal Patterns on Road Network under the Rainstorm Disaster

ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2022
Road vulnerability is crucial for enhancing the robustness of urban road networks and urban resilience. In medium or large cities, road failures in the face of unexpected events, such as heavy rainfall, can affect regional traffic efficiency and ...
Qirui Wu, Zhigang Han, Caihui Cui, Feng Liu, Yifan Zhao, Zhaoxin Xie   +5 more
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Building Failure and Collapse in Nigeria: the Influence of the Informal Sector [PDF]

, 2010
The occurrence of building failure and collapse has become a major issue of concern in the development of this nation as the magnitudes of this incident are becoming very alarming.
Fagbenle, Olabosipo I., Oluwunmi, Adedamola O   +1 more
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Dynamic Assessment of the Impact of Flood Disaster on Economy and Population under Extreme Rainstorm Events

Remote Sensing, 2021
In the context of climate change and rapid urbanization, flood disaster loss caused by extreme rainstorm events is becoming more and more serious. An accurate assessment of flood disaster loss has become a key issue.
Xin Su, Weiwei Shao, Jiahong Liu, Yunzhong Jiang, Kaibo Wang   +4 more
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Risk assessment of rainstorm disasters in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao greater Bay area of China during 1990–2018

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2022
With climate change and urbanization, the rainstorm disaster has become one of the major climate risks in constructing the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Yujie Wang, Jianqing Zhai, Ge Gao, Qiufeng Liu, Lianchun Song   +4 more
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Design of temperature insurance index and risk zonation for single-season rice in response to high-temperature and low-temperature damage: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China. [PDF]

, 2019
Disaster insurance is an important tool for achieving sustainable development in modern agriculture. However, in China, the design of such insurance indexes is far from sufficient.
Bai, Clarke, Huang, Jewson, Ji Guo, Jiajia Jin, Lu, Luo, Meng, Miranda, Qiang, Skees, Wang, Xianhua Wu, Xu, Yinshan Tang, You, Zhang, Zuo   +18 more
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Rainstorm and high‐temperature disaster risk assessment of territorial space in Beijing, China

Meteorological Applications, 2023
It is important for territorial spatial planning to master meteorological disaster risk under the conditions of climate change and then carry out risk adaptation planning according to local conditions. Taking Beijing, a large city in China, as an example,
Chen Cheng, Xiaoyi Fang, Mingcai Li, Yuanhui Yang, Ya Gao, Shuo Zhang, Ying Yu, Yonghong Liu, Wupeng Du   +8 more
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Characteristics of Rainstorm Intensity and Its Future Risk Estimation in the Upstream of Yellow River Basin

Atmosphere, 2022
Under the background of climate warming, the occurrence of extreme events upstream of the Yellow River Basin has increased significantly. Extreme precipitation tends to be even more intense, and occurs more frequently.
Wanzhi Li, Ruishan Chen, Shao Sun, Di Yu, Min Wang, Caihong Liu, Menziyi Qi   +6 more
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The 20 February 2010 Madeira flash-floods: synoptic analysis and extreme rainfall assessment [PDF]

, 2012
This study aims to characterise the rainfall exceptionality and the meteorological context of the 20 February 2010 flash-floods in Madeira (Portugal). Daily and hourly precipitation records from the available rain-gauge station networks are evaluated in ...
Fragoso, M., Lopes, A., Lopes, S., Magro, C., Pinto, J. G., Trigo, R. M., Ulbrich, S.   +6 more
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A Study on Spatial-Temporal Rainstorm Risk at Civil Airports in China [PDF]

Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2015
Based on daily precipitation data of 174 meteorological stations near civil airports in China, flight data over the same period (1994-2013) and other relevant airport data, this paper carries out a study on risk analysis of rainstorm at Chinese civil ...
Xiaomei Guo, Xiaobing Hu, Hang Li, Zhen Xu   +3 more
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