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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"FLOOD HAZARDS"”.
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Resilient Multifamily Residential Design: Addressing Flood Hazards and Enhancing Quality of Life
… rise of up to 5.25 feet by 2100, addressing flood hazards is critical. The design employs three primary adaptation methods: alleviation, embracing water, and elevation techniques. Alleviation involves integrating functional spaces, such as recreational areas and green spaces, that absorb and …
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Flood hazards and preparedness of subsistence farmers in the Vhembe District municipality in the Limpopo province
… The severity and frequency of cyclones, floods, and droughts have risen over the previous 20 years, with a major adverse effect on the economy globally, particularly the agricultural sector. Farmers in Africa continue to face challenges in developing resilience to floods, which adversely …
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Cyclone shelters and cyclone resilient design in coastal areas of Bangladesh
… a broad review of settlement history and hazards in coastal Bangladesh, a planning chapter that zooms in on the issues at five spatial scales, followed by a design chapter that zooms out from proposals for improving shelter site planning to a more comprehensive analysis of the spatial …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… who drew upon datasets and models about flooding and construction of canals around IPCC and UN climate data; the state officials, who sought to reduce vulnerability to flood hazards through land evictions; and of Indo-, Afro-, and Amerindian Guyanese farmers and squatters who were evicted …
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Investigating Compound Flood Using Remote Sensing And Hydrodynamic Modeling
<p>Flooding is a frequent and destructive natural disaster that poses serious risks to infrastructure and socio-environmental systems. It involves multiple processes (e.g., coastal, pluvial, and fluvial) that can combine to cause more devastation than any process alone, called compound flooding …
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Lessons learned from urban river restoration projects: application of restoration treatments on the Los Angeles River.
… In the past, urban rivers were condemned as flood hazards, and load-reducing treatments were the only treatments applied to protect the surrounding communities against flooding. These treatments aim to collect precipitation from the surrounding surfaces quickly and divert the water using the …
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Flood risks and spatial vulnerabilities: a case study of the University of Venda, South Africa
This study explored flood risks and spatial vulnerabilities using a case study of the University of Venda in South Africa. Although there is a wealth of literature on flood hazards and vulnerabilities in developing nations and some South African regions, no such studies were conducted at the …
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A discourse on geospatial technology applications in predictive analytics and evidence-based decision support for disaster research and management
… across the world are creating a new geography of hazards and disasters. Increasing storm frequencies coupled with unrelenting efforts to control flooding through structural means will undoubtedly intensify the intersection between flood hazards and humans. Accordingly, the baseline capacity of …
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Analysis of Post-Sandy Single-Family Housing Market in Staten Island, New York
… buildings damaged. Housing damage resulting from floods has increased in the United States, despite local, state and federal encouragement to mitigate flood hazards and regulate development in flood-prone areas (Atreya, 2013). The two primary causes of these increased costs are: (1) a rise in the …
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Evaluating Future Runoff, Water Stress and Fluvial Flooding in China under Climate Change
… in runoff variability, water stress, and fluvial flood hazards under climate change and socioeconomic development. Understanding how these processes may evolve under future scenarios is critical for long-term water resource planning and climate adaptation. However, existing studies often suffer …
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The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems
… are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective for long-term flood safety. Flood control is also well-understood to be destructive to river-floodplain …
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
… for mitigating disruptions caused by natural hazards, particularly in flood-prone urban areas. This research explores the application of resilience concepts, CI interdependency models, and quantitative assessment frameworks to enhance infrastructure resilience. A key focus is developing …
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Hydrological Frequency Analysis under Nonstationary Conditions
… nonstationarity characteristics and estimated flood hazards; (c) improving the determination of the NS-HFA model by proposing a novel procedure based on the decomposition of nonstationary stochastic processes; (d) enhancing the computational efficiency and numerical stability of the profile …
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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF FLOOD WAVE IMPACT PRESSURES TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW SEAWALL DESIGNS USING A DAM-BREAK APPROACH
Coastal flooding and erosion, a major consequence of coastal natural events can result in physical devastation, threats to human health and safety, detrimental effects on ecosystems, and severe economic losses to individuals and to society. These potentially devastating consequences are therefore …
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A dynamic knowledge graph approach to creating interoperability in smart cities: Selected case studies towards holistic flood impact assessments and district heating operations
… case studies - the assessment of potential flood impacts with regard to the population and built environment at risk and the resource-optimised operation of a district heating network. Specifically, a dynamic knowledge graph approach is investigated to align the representation of data and …
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Earth Observation Data-Driven Assessment of Local to Regional, Contemporary, and Emerging Coastal Environmental Security Challenges
… to reach further inland, significantly altering flood regimes in coastal cities. By 2050, potentially damaging coastal flooding is expected to occur ten times as often compared to a baseline for the start of the 21st century. Moreover, these changes along the U.S. coastlines vary regionally and …
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Making and unmaking the dry city : the design-politics of flood mitigation from infrastructural modernization to climate adaptation
… in response to the compound challenges of 1) flooding linked to climate change and 2) uneven urbanization. Advocates of contemporary flood mitigation efforts often frame their proposals as qualitatively different than the 'gray' levee and pump projects of previous generations. 20th century dry …
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Methodological advances in benefit transfer and hedonic analysis
… feasibility while estimating the impact of flood hazards on housing prices.
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The Petrochemical Industrial Complex of the St. Charles Parish Industrial Corridor and its Influence on Urbanization Patterns
… natural levee, which is the most elevated and flood resistant land in the town. In order to test these observations, the author of this thesis has collected parcel-level land use data in Norco to determine the flood hazard and topographical characteristics of these various land uses. Spatial …
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Sediment transport modelling at the catchment scale in Alpine streams
… processes may severely contribute to flood hazards. Also, artificial reservoirs may reduce their capacity to provide water in the quantity and time needed for the productive uses they were built, like irrigation and hydropower. In the last sixty years for example, dam-regulated rivers …
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