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floodplains not only is required by the EU Floods Directive but also implicates a variety of socio-economic conflicts related to …
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Rising fuel prices are thought to drive households in developing countries to increase pressure on natural resources, primarily through firewood collection and logging. We revisit this assumption and conducted household surveys to elicit responses to energy price changes in East Kalimantan,...
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In July of 1998, Bangladesh was in the grip of the worst flood of its history. It damaged a lot of assets all over the country. About two-thirds of the country was inundated, BRAC's micro-credit borrowers were affected seriously by the flood. They are normally in a vulnerable situation because...
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Organizational scholars increasingly use the term “resilience” to analyze options of dealing with uncertain context conditions. What do these scholars have to offer to researchers in the field of natural hazards? This research note makes three suggestions. First, the research note frames...
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caused high levels of destruction. However, data on past events related to floods and landslides were scattered. The …-geomorphologic database for Portugal, by creating, disseminating and exploiting a GIS database on disastrous floods and landslides for the … the <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">Disaster database are presented. A total of 1,621 disastrous floods and 281 disastrous …
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debris flows, consequences of debris flows and floods in an urban setting, and spatial extents of the hydrologic response …
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There is a need for comprehensive, standardised and georeferenced information on floods for political and economic …, disaster monitoring and assessment. Despite this, there is a lack of spatial and thematic accurate global data for floods. In … situation for major floods in the EU on the basis of past events and current trends. The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) of …
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well as benefits resulting from scale implications. Both assessments analyse vulnerability in context to river floods in …
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, the most powerful floods ever occurred in the Siret River watershed with significant negative effects on the country … surface affected by floods was of 58,323.936 hectares, of which: 34,142.349 ha (58.54%) arable land, 6,697.486 ha (11 …
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management of important natural disasters in Germany, i.e., floods, earthquakes, storms and wildland fires. This included risk …
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