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Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign [PDF]

, 2018
Modern urban flood and water management emphasises holistic strategies that reduce flood risk while providing co- benefits to urban economies, societies and environments.
Ahilan, Ashley, Balica, Bastien, BES, Chan, Chen, Chen, Downs, Du, Fleming, Francesch-Huidobro, Gong, Gu, Guan, Haghighatafshar, Hallegatte, Hanson, Hoang, Hoyer, Hsu, Hutter, Jha, Lawson, Lu, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China, Novotny, O'Donnell, O'Donnell, Ozawa, Qiu, Schanze, Shang, Stahre, Talhelm, Tan, Tang, Tang, The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, Thorne, Thorne, UNISDR, Voskamp, Wang, Woetzel, Wong, Wu, Xu, Yao, Yin, Yu, Zhang, Zhang, Zhejiang Province Yin County Local Gazetteer Editorial Committee, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou, Zhou   +59 more
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GIS-Based Urban Flood Resilience Assessment Using Urban Flood Resilience Model: A Case Study of Peshawar City, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Remote Sensing, 2021
Urban flooding has been an alarming issue in the past around the globe, particularly in South Asia. Pakistan is no exception from this situation where urban floods with associated damages are frequently occurring phenomena.
Muhammad Tayyab, Jiquan Zhang, M. Hussain, Safi Ullah, Xingpeng Liu, Shahdab Khan, Muhammad Aslam Baig, W. Hassan, Bazel Al-Shaibah   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective

npj Urban Sustainability
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely unknown.
Kejing Zhou, Fanhua Kong, Haiwei Yin, G. Destouni, Michael E. Meadows, Erik Andersson, Liding Chen, Bin Chen, Zhenya Li, Jie Su   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a high-resolution modelling scheme for local-scale urban flood risk assessment based on digital aerial photogrammetry

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2023
With the rapid development of cities and the impact of climate change, cities located near rivers are facing an increasingly serious flood threat. Urban flood risk prediction management is pressing.
Changbo Jiang, Yuantai Kang, Ke Qu, Yuannan Long, Yuan Ma, Shixiong Yan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Return period curves for extreme 5-min rainfall amounts at the Barcelona urban network [PDF]

, 2019
Heavy rainfall episodes are relatively common in the conurbation of Barcelona and neighbouring cities (NE Spain), usually due to storms generated by convective phenomena in summer and eastern and south-eastern advections in autumn.
Burgueño Rivero, August, Casas Castillo, M. del Carmen, Lana Pons, Francisco Javier, Martínez Santafé, Maria Dolors, Redaño Xipell, Angel, Rodríguez Solá, Raúl, Serra de Larrocha, Carina   +6 more
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Urban pollution and ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2019
Urban pollutants can degrade and inhibit ecological functions and processes. Those natural processes provide vital benefits and services to humans.
Baldocchi, Bidwell, Currie, Davies, Demuzere, Desai, Galvao, Jose, Kallis, Kiss, Kong, Lundy, Maes, POSTnote 281, POSTnote 376, POSTnote 542, Pugh, Rogers, Salmond, Säumel, WHO   +20 more
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Monitoring Land Use/Cover Changes by Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing for Urban Hydrological Assessment: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Remote Sensing, 2022
Understanding the change in hydrological response due to urban dynamics is important for better flood preparedness and future sustainable urban planning.
Crispin Kabeja, Rui Li, Digne Edmond Rwabuhungu Rwatangabo, Jiawei Duan   +3 more
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Urban flood impact assessment: A state-of-the-art review [PDF]

, 2014
Copyright © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Urban Water Journal (2013), available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1573062X.2013.857421There is another ORE record for this publication:
Butler, David, Chen, Albert S., Djordjevic, Slobodan, Hammond, Michael J., Mark, Ole   +4 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on Urban Flood Risk Transfer Caused by Polders for Flood Control in Plain River Network Areas

Renmin Zhujiang, 2023
The construction of polders in plain water network areas has changed the pattern of flood control and drainage,and the transfer of urban flood risks caused by it is still unclear.By comprehensively applying urban flood coupling simulation and risk ...
WANG Yuefeng, CUI Tingting, XU Youpeng, WANG Qiang   +3 more
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