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Andrés Díez-Herrero and Julio Garrote
Studies looking at flood risk analysis and assessment (FRA) reviews are not customary, and they usually approach to methodological and spatial scale issues, uncertainty, mapping or economic damage topics. However, most of these reviews provide a snapshot...
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Heba El-Bagoury and Ahmed Gad
Flooding is a natural disaster with extensive impacts. Desert regions face altered flooding patterns owing to climate change, water scarcity, regulations, and rising water demands. This study assessed and predicted flash flood hazards by calculating disc...
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Luís Cea and Pierfranco Costabile
The modelling and management of flood risk in urban areas are increasingly recognized as global challenges. The complexity of these issues is a consequence of the existence of several distinct sources of risk, including not only fluvial, tidal and coasta...
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Mark Ziegelaar and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. However, the Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) employed to manage them are hazard-focused and tend to overlook exposure and vulnerability. This leaves potential for Australian FRAs to ma...
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Omar M. Nofal, John W. van de Lindt, Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields and Kevin Crofton
The growing number of flood disasters worldwide and the subsequent catastrophic consequences of these events have revealed the flood vulnerability of communities. Flood impact predictions are essential for better flood risk management which can result in...
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Chinh Luu, Hieu Xuan Tran, Binh Thai Pham, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Thai Quoc Tran, Nga Quynh Duong, Nam Hai Dao, Lam Phuong Nguyen, Huu Duy Nguyen, Huong Thu Ta, Hiep Van Le and Jason von Meding
Vietnam has been extensively affected by floods, suffering heavy losses in human life and property. While the Vietnamese government has focused on structural measures of flood defence such as levees and early warning systems, the country still lacks floo...
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Badri Bhakta Shrestha
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Assessment of flood hazard and damage is a prerequisite for flood risk management in the river basins. The mitigation plans for flood risk management are mostly evaluated in quantified terms as it is important in decision making process. Therefore, analy...
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Anna Christina Miller and Thomas Michael Ravens
Rising waters and land subsidence are increasing relative sea levels in western and northern Alaska, forcing communities to relocate or armor in place. To appropriately plan and make equitable decisions, there is a need to forecast the risk of flood expo...
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Max Tesselaar, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Toon Haer, Paul Hudson, Timothy Tiggeloven and Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Flood insurance coverage can enhance financial resilience of households to changing flood risk caused by climate change. However, income inequalities imply that not all households can afford flood insurance. The uptake of flood insurance in voluntary mar...
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Yeon Moon Choo, Deok Jun Jo, Gwan Seon Yun and Eui Hoon Lee
Frequent localized torrential rains, excessive population density in urban areas, and increased impervious areas have led to massive flood damage that has been causing overloading of drainage systems (watersheds, reservoirs, drainage pump sites, etc.). F...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Daria Wieslawa Krasiewicz and Grzegorz Wierzbicki
The origin and dynamics of a 2010 pluvial flood in the valley of a large European river are described. In order to study how local people perceive this catastrophic event a small administrative unit (rural municipality) within the Holocene floodplain (th...
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Xiaodi Fu, Xiaoyan He and Liuqian Ding
The existing flood stochastic simulation methods are mostly applied to the stochastic simulation of flood intensity characteristics, with less consideration for the randomness of the flood hydrograph shape and its correlation with intensity characteristi...
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Andre D. L. Zanchetta and Paulin Coulibaly
Timely generation of accurate and reliable forecasts of flash flood events is of paramount importance for flood early warning systems in urban areas. Although physically based models are able to provide realistic reproductions of fast-developing inundati...
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Francesca Aureli, Paolo Mignosa, Federico Prost and Susanna Dazzi
Flood hazard is assessed for a watershed with scarce hydrological data in the lower plain of Northern Italy, where the current defense system is inadequate to protect a highly populated urban area located at a river confluence and crossed by numerous bri...
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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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Waleed A. Hammood, Ruzaini Abdullah Arshah, Salwana Mohamad Asmara, Hussam Al Halbusi, Omar A. Hammood and Salem Al Abri
Flood is the major natural hazard in Malaysia in terms of populations affected, area extent, frequency, social?economic damage, and flood duration. This shows the importance of providing comprehensive and effective flood mitigation management, which requ...
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Giuseppe Barbaro, Marcelo Gomes Miguez, Matheus Martins de Sousa, Anna Beatriz Ribeiro da Cruz Franco, Paula Morais Canedo de Magalhães, Giandomenico Foti, Matheus Rocha Valadão and Irene Occhiuto
Urbanization increases imperviousness and reduces infiltration, retention, and evapotranspiration, frequently aggravating urban flooding due to greater runoff and higher and faster discharge peaks. Effective strategies to mitigate flood risks require a b...
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Jung Hwan Lee, Gi Moon Yuk, Hyeon Tae Moon and Young-Il Moon
The flood forecasting and warning system enable an advanced warning of flash floods and inundation depths for disseminating alarms in urban areas. Therefore, in this study, we developed an integrated flood forecasting and warning system combined inland-r...
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Julian Hofmann and Holger Schüttrumpf
The effective forecast and warning of pluvial flooding in real time is one of the key elements and remaining challenges of an integrated urban flood risk management. This paper presents a new methodology for integrating risk-based solutions and 2D hydrod...
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