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1D-2D MODELING OF URBAN FLOODS AND RISK MAP GENERATION FOR THE PART OF HYDERABAD CITY [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 Space for water is now becoming guiding principle of urban planning because urban flooding is the major problem facing by most of the cities in India. Urban development in developing countries like India usually occurs with high population concentrating ...
V. A. Rangari +4 more
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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International Studies JournalFlooding remains a recurrent and escalating environmental challenge in Nigeria, driven by climate change, rapid urbanization, poor infrastructure, inadequate drainage systems, and weak enforcement of urban planning laws.
TAIWO A. MURITALA
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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 +3 more
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, 2017 The recent degradation of environment quality becomes the prime cause of the recent occurrence of natural disasters. It also contributes in the increase of the area that is prone to natural disasters. Flood history data in Jakarta shows that flood occurred mainly during rainy season around January – February each year, but the flood area varies each ...
Riyanto, Indra, Margatama, Lestari
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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 +2 more
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Environmental Research LettersUrbanisation significantly alters the interaction between land surface and the lower troposphere, impacting occurrences of natural hazards. The influence of urbanisation on natural hazards like heatwaves, hailstorms, and flooding remains debated. However,
Dave Lommen +8 more
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Modeling of Municipal Drainage and Urban Channel Flooding in Coastal City in the South of China [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2015 A numerical model has been formatted including ocean, rain drainage, urban channels, and pumps by the software MIKE FLOOD which coupling MIKE URBAN, MIKE 11 and MIKE 21. The different scenarios have been simulated. The flooding warning water level of the
Xiyan Ren +3 more
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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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The Role of Floods in Urban Environments
This research has received funding, in the case of CSG from the European Union-Next Generation EU, the Spanish Ministry of Universities under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through Margarita Salas fellowship (ref. MARSALAS21-22). CSG belongs to the FluVAlps Research Group (PID2020-113664RB-I00) supported by the Spanish Ministry of ...
Carlos Sánchez-García, Marcos Francos
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