what disaster research literature has labeled ‘disaster subcultures’ or a set of cultural (tangible and intangible) tools … at discerning if the disaster subculture concept has contemporary relevance in the Netherlands, particularly with respect … to flooding, and if so, whether applying this lens would reveal more about the nature of existing disaster subcultures …

Flood is one of the common natural phenomena anywhere. In the second half of 2011, Thailand has recently faced with the … most devastating flood of her modern history. More than 3,330 national highways are damaged by this flood. Some roads are …

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 …

). 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 …

To improve flood forecasting, the understanding of the atmospheric conditions associated with severe rainfall is …

modeling components into a global identification/monitoring system for flood/landslide disaster preparedness and mitigation … other type of natural disaster. With the availability of satellite rainfall analyses at fine time and space resolution, it …

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 …

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 …

fuzzy expected value of a flood risk in the Jinhua River basin has been performed based on the interior–outer-set model. The …