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Sustainable cities and society, 2021 As urban populations continue to grow through the 21st century, more people are projected to be at risk of exposure to climate change-induced extreme events.
Heejun Chang +14 more
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Evaluating urban flood risk using hybrid method of TOPSIS and machine learning
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021 With the growth of cities, urban flooding has increasingly become an issue for regional and national governments. The destructive effects of floods are magnified in cities.
Elham Rafiei-Sardooi +4 more
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Shaping urbanization to achieve communities resilient to floods
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Flood risk is increasing in urban communities due to climate change and socioeconomic development. Socioeconomic development is a major cause of urban expansion in flood-prone regions, as it places more physical, economic, and social infrastructure at ...
Mona Hemmati +3 more
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Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?
WIREs Water, 2021 Urban flooding is a key global challenge which is expected to become exacerbated under global change due to more intense rainfall and flashier runoff regimes over increasingly urban landscapes.
Daniel Green +9 more
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Utilization of Flood Simulation Technique in Urban Flood Warning - A Case Study on Fuzhou [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2015 Vulnerability of urban receptors in flood prevention is rising during the rapid urbanization, and emergency response strategies were introduced to strengthen the capacity of urban flood prevention and flood disaster response.
Shuaijie Li +3 more
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The effects of urbanization on floods in the Austin metropolitan area, Texas [PDF]
, 1986 This report looks at compiled data from 1956-1980 to "provide a technique for estimating the magnitude and frequency of flood-peak discharges at ungaged sites and to estimate the effects of changes in urbanization on flood peaks."The effects of ...
Gannett, David G., Veenhuis, Jack E.
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Twitter - a new citizen science solution for urban flood database #urban floods #flood database
, 2023 Abstract High spatial heterogeneous behavior of urban floods offers challenges in its monitoring, modeling and assessment, and lack of flood database further increases complexity. This study proposes a twitter-based framework to develop a flood database.
Padmini Ponukumati, Satish Kumar Regonda
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Review on Urban Flood Risk Assessment
Sustainability, 2022 Under the background of rapid urban development and continuous climate change, frequent floods around the world have caused serious economic losses and social problems, which has become the main reason for the sustainable development of cities.
Cailin Li +6 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Frontiers in WaterAgriculture-dependent developing Southeast Asian countries need to assess residual pesticides in receiving water from agricultural runoff as one of the basis for the establishment of baseline data.
Maria Luisa Baiño Salingay +5 more
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