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Causes and consequences of floods: flash floods, urban floods, river floods and coastal floods

Resources Environment and Information Engineering, 2022
Undoubtedly, the flood is known as a natural disaster. But in practice, the flood is considered the most terrible natural disaster in terms of mortality and financial losses. In this regard, a worrying trend is the increasing trend of mortality and flood damage in the world in recent decades.
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
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Flood susceptibility assessment for ungauged sites in urban areas using spatial modeling

Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2022
In urban areas, flood susceptibility assessment is of special importance because of the high settlement population, properties, and infrastructures. Geospatial information science (GIS) provides a tool for investigating flood susceptibility based on ...
Zohreh Masoumi
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Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
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Urban Flood Risk and Resilience: How Can We Protect Our Cities from Flooding?

Hydrology
This article draws on over 40 years of the author’s experience with hydroinformatics tools for water and sustainability challenges, including flooding. It aims to spark discussion on urban flood risk and resilience rather than provide a literature review
Dragan Savić
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Link between Land Use and Flood Risk Assessment in Urban Areas

Proceedings, 2020
The densification of urban areas has raised concerns over increased pluvial flooding. Flood risk in urban areas might increase under the impact of land use changes. Urbanisation involves the conversion of natural areas to impermeable areas, causing lower
Zahra Kalantari, Johanna Sörensen
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Does Disclosure Type Matter? Climate‐Related Financial Disclosures and Corporate Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our study examines the financial implications of corporate climate‐related financial disclosures while distinguishing between quantitative and qualitative disclosures. We use a multiple‐period difference‐in‐differences approach to analyze Japanese firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market from 2019 to 2023.
Alexander Ryota Keeley, Jun Xie, Chao Li, Masaaki Nagamura, Shunsuke Managi   +4 more
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Assessment of urban flood resilience based on the socio-ecological composite index model: a case study in Wuhua District, Kunming City, China

Water Science and Technology
Global climate change and rapid urbanization have increased the frequency of flooding, making urban flood resilience a critical objective. This article introduces a methodology for assessing urban flood resilience, utilizing a social-ecological synthesis
Zhiqiang Xie, Donghui Hu, Fengshan Jiang, Xingfeng Fu, Rong Li, Daoyang Zheng, Lei Zhao, Jiarui Xu, Xiangdong Yuan, Yinli Bao, Haibin Zhou, Bin Wang, Qing Wang   +12 more
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DIAGNOSTIC OF URBAN FLOODING IN NAIROBI

Under the changing climate conditions and El-Niño in rainy seasons, global reports projected devastating floods in Nairobi. Despite numerous reports and media coverage about the flood impacts on the residents, especially on the urban poor, spatial evidence (e.g., detailed flood modelling) at the city scale is absent.
Trento Oliveira, Lorraine, Kuffer, Monika, Belgiu, Mariana, Dijkstra, Anne M.   +3 more
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Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang, Xin Xu, Kingsley Imandojemu, Felix Orole, Romanus Osabohien   +4 more
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