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In the middle of 2007, a severe flood affected the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This is a natural disaster that …. Despite many adverse impacts, the flood situation is an accepted phenomenon to the citizens of Bangladesh, due to the immense … increase of soil fertility due to the flood, plus, the recharge of aquifer, ecosystem and fish. The flood of 2007 was the 5th …
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). The project included a survey of the flood risk management at establishments and installations in the catchment areas of … the Rhine and the Elbe, a description of available flood protection and safety technology and a discussion of emergency … planning requirements. Gaps in flood risk management at industrial sites and installations were identified and recommendations …
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To improve flood forecasting, the understanding of the atmospheric conditions associated with severe rainfall is …
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modeling components into a global identification/monitoring system for flood/landslide disaster preparedness and mitigation …
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future coastal flood hazard, we set up a GIS-based flood model of northern Jakarta to simulate inundated area and value of … exposed assets. Under current conditions, estimated damage exposure to extreme coastal flood events with return periods of 100 … inundation scenario for assessing impacts associated with any coastal flood scenario. This allows for the identification of …
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the present study is to analyze the types and trends in terms of flood events, frequency, number of people killed, injured … Department, Pune, from 1978 to 2006. Analysis of these long-term data has revealed that 2,443 flood events claimed about 44 ….5 human lives per million of the population. A majority (56 %) of flood fatalities were caused during severe flood events …
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fuzzy expected value of a flood risk in the Jinhua River basin has been performed based on the interior–outer-set model. The …
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In many megacities of the global south, the combination of rapid population growth and high pressure on space for housing, results in urban growth taking place in areas particularly prone to natural hazards. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is no exception to this rule. Many marginal...
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The main objective of this writing is to present a practical way to envisage the flood vulnerability in deltaic region … provides an understanding and preparation for the impacts of sea level rise on the flood mitigation infrastructures and the …
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The interannual variability of flood, bushfire andheatwave fatality data for eastern Australia duringthe period 1876 … standardised bushfire(flood) fatality event day frequencies with increasingvalues of the SOI. In contrast to that, thestandardised … probability of reaching the mean annualnumber of flood-fatality event days is roughly fourtimes higher during La Niña seasons (80 …
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