the viewwith Posen (1998) that the major economic problems of Japan during the 1990s arose due to policymaking mistakes …

the perception of flood risk among household heads educated up to secondary school level, suggesting that they believe …This study aims at understanding flood risks and their impact on a community, in order to enhance communities …’ resilience and adaptive capacity to these threats. It also investigates the possibility of looking at and handling risk from a …

risk assessment for large cities. We have interpreted high spatial resolution images, conducted field surveys, and utilized … calculate risk for buildings and bridges along the Río Chili valley and two tributaries. A survey of ~1,000 buildings from 46 …

Information Systems-based assessment of flood and waterlogging vulnerability and risk in northern Bihar plains. Multitemporal … flood-waterlogging risk map of the region. The result shows that flood and water-logging pose highest risk to the central … losses due to these hazards indicate the continuing vulnerability of the region to flood and waterlogging. Management of …

case of Baltimore City using a flood model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The transformed … million per year to completely avoid flood damage. The values chosen for the base case ex-ante alternative increase … willingness to pay by about 40 percent, a value which can be increased with higher risk aversion, reduced by a higher level of …

a flood hazard map of La Trinidad by means of a simple method, with a resulting map easy to understand and to use by the …

configurations (e.g., bridges, levees) in order to reliably determine the spatial patterns of flood intensities and probabilities …. Here, we discuss an approach aiming to support an enhanced determination of flood hazard patterns by identifying within … refers to the part of the system where the flood propagation can be computed with sufficient precision and accuracy by …