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Urban flooding in China: current status, causes and challenges

Shui kexue jinzhan
Urban 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, Nantao XU, Jianyun ZHANG, Ruimin HE   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn, Emma J. Sacks, Kayla Fike   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
openaire   +2 more sources

A Geomorphometric Approach to Estimate the Deterioration of Earthen Archaeological Sites by Rainfall and Diffusion Processes: The Huaca Chornancap (Eighth–14th Century ad), Lambayeque, Peru

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini, Maria Ilaria Pannaccione Apa, Robert Gutiérrez Cachay, Marco Fernández Manayalle, Carlos Eduardo Wester La Torre, Guido Ventura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha, Frauke Hildebrandt, Caroline Wronski, Jan Lonnemann, Mathias Urban   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Urban Flooding Driving Factors Based on Water Tracer Method and Optimal Parameters-Based Geographical Detector

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Urban flooding is caused by multiple factors, which seriously restricts the sustainable development of society. Understanding the driving factors of urban flooding is pivotal to alleviating flood disasters.
Kui Xu, Yizhuang Tian, Lingling Bin, Hongshi Xu, Xiao Xue, Jijian Lian   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Urban Flooding Index for Unsupervised Inundated Urban Area Detection Using Sentinel-1 Polarimetric SAR Images

Remote Sensing, 2021
Urban flooding causes a variation in radar return from urban areas. However, such variation has not been thoroughly examined for different polarizations because of the lack of polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images and ground truth data simultaneously ...
Hui Zhang, Zhixin Qi, Xia Li, Yimin Chen, Xianwei Wang, Yingqing He   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette, Reece Mills, Terri Bourke, Simone White, Martin Mills, Lisa van Leent   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source