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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Zohreh Rajabi and Nitin Muttil
Agricultural damage due to floods in the Indus basin?s fertile land has been the most damaging natural disaster in Pakistan so far. Earthen dikes are protecting the vast areas of the floodplain from regular flooding. However, the floodplain is attractive...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significan...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
Modern-day flood management has evolved into a variety of flood management alternatives. The selection of appropriate flood measures is crucial under a variety of flood management practices, approaches, and assessment criteria. Many leading countries app...
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Csaba Mátyás, Imre Berki, András Bidló, György Csóka, Kornél Czimber, Erno Führer, Borbála Gálos, Zoltán Gribovszki, Gábor Illés, Anikó Hirka and Zoltán Somogyi
Climate change particularly threatens the xeric limits of temperate-continental forests. In Hungary, annual temperatures have increased by 1.2 °C–1.8 °C in the last 30 years and the frequency of extreme droughts has grown. With the aim to g...
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Toon Haer,Wouter Botzen,Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo,Carline Cusell,Philip J. Ward
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Economic losses as a result of natural hazards have been rising over the past few decades due to socio-economic development and perhaps climate change. This upwards trend is projected to continue, highlighting the need for adequate adaptation strategies....
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