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Water Science and Technology, 2023 In recent years, there has been severe flooding in urban areas as well as coastal and river flooding. Urban flooding is exacerbated by climate change, urbanization, growing population, and the increase of impervious surfaces in urban areas.
Burak Çirağ, Mahmut Firat
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Heliyon, 2023 Urban areas are the engines of socioeconomic growth and the homes of billions of people around the globe. In a changing climate, urban areas are inexorably from vulnerability to climate hazards including flooding which deters their social, economic, and ...
Issa Musa Nyashilu +2 more
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Water Science and TechnologyWith the impact of global climate change and the urbanization process, the risk of urban flooding has increased rapidly, especially in developing countries.
Yue Zheng +6 more
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Ecological IndicatorsUrban flooding is a multifaceted and severe issue, exacerbated by global climate change and urban expansion. Hence, it is imperative to investigate effective strategies for mitigating the urban flooding risk.
Xiaoping Fu +6 more
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Resilience effect of decentralized detention system to extreme flooding events
Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2023 The experiences from recent urban flooding events suggest that the conventional centralized detention systems based on detention size expansion with minimum costs need to accommodate the extreme flooding events exceeding their design capacity. This study
Amrit Bhusal, Ajay Kalra, Sangmin Shin
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Key Influencing Factors of Urban Flooding in Wuhan Based on Multi-scale Geographically Weighted Regression Model [PDF]
长江科学院院报[Objective] Urban flooding severely threatens social security and development, and identifying key influencing factors of urban flooding is fundamental to studying flood disasters. Many studies have used the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model
HUANG Zi-ye, YANG Qing-yuan, WEI Hong-yan
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Reconstruction of Historical Land Use and Urban Flood Simulation in Xi’an, Shannxi, China
Remote Sensing, 2022 Reconstruction of historical land uses helps to understand patterns, drivers, and impacts of land-use change, and is essential for finding solutions to land-use sustainability.
Shuangtao Wang +5 more
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Urban flooding in China: current status, causes and challenges
Shui kexue jinzhanUrban flooding has become an extremely serious disaster in China due to global climate change and rapid urbanization, resulting in a prominent bottleneck that affects urban public safety and high-quality development.
Xiaomeng SONG +3 more
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Flood Protection of the Non-Urban Area
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, 2023 Due to global warming, the risk of floods is constantly increasing due to the drying up of the soil, followed by more intense rain showers and storms. Therefore, it is essential to pay more attention to this topic now. The article deals with the design of flood protection in the municipality.
Malatinský, Adam, Hromada, Martin
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Role of physical settings on increasing flood hazard in Muscat Built-up areas (2007-2015) using GIS
Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2018 This study aims at evaluating selected environmental attributes of urban development pathways in relation to their impacts on increasing cyclone-related flooding in the Governorate of Muscat for the years 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2015.
Rana N. Jawarneh, Said S. Almushaiki
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