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Pluvial Flooding Risk Analysis and the Solutions to Risk Mitigation for Dangyang City in China [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2015 This paper introduces Urban Storm Water Drainage and Localized Pluvial Flooding Mitigation Planning of Dangyang City of Hubei Province in China. With the help of ARCGIS, MIKE FLOOD and other software, we found that the two main courses of pluvial ...
Yuhong Li +4 more
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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Surface water flooding : sustainable drainage to the ground [PDF]
, 2010 During the exceptional rainfall events of summer 2007, floods inundated 7,300 businesses and 48,000 homes across the UK (PITT Review) with estimated costs of £3.2 billion.
Dearden, Rachel, Price, Simon
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Surface water flood warnings in England: overview, Assessment and recommendations based on survey responses and workshops [PDF]
, 2015 Following extensive surface water flooding (SWF) in England in summer 2007, progress has been made in improving the management and prediction of this type of flooding.
Johnston, A +4 more
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Areas Vulnerable to Urban Flooding: A Case Study of Lahore, Pakistan
International Journal of Economic and Environment Geology, 2019 Identification of existing hotspots is one of the principal steps for evolving strategy to mitigate urban flooding, an emerging problem in mega cities of developing countries.
Sahar Zia, Safdar Ali Shirazi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
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Visual Sensing for Urban Flood Monitoring [PDF]
Sensors, 2015 With the increasing climatic extremes, the frequency and severity of urban flood events have intensified worldwide. In this study, image-based automated monitoring of flood formation and analyses of water level fluctuation were proposed as value-added intelligent sensing applications to turn a passive monitoring camera into a visual sensor.
Shi-Wei Lo +3 more
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A study on the effect of spatially variation rainfall on urban flooding
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & RiskTo overcome the limitations of traditional urban stormwater flooding simulations, which often neglect the spatial variability of rainfall distribution, a spatially variation rainfall pattern generation model based on actual rainfall data were developed ...
Jinping Zhang +5 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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