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Mapping flood pressure points: assessing vulnerability of the UK Fire Service to flooding

Speakman, Dorian - In: Natural Hazards 44 (2008) 1, pp. 111-127

of severe floods. Taking recent case studies with the UK Fire Service, the patterns of vulnerability, in terms of demand …

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Physical vulnerability assessment for alpine hazards: state of the art and future needs

Papathoma-Köhle, M.; Kappes, M.; Keiler, M.; Glade, T. - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 2, pp. 645-680

Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to human lives and development and can …

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Putting adaptive capacity into the context of people’s lives: a case study of two flood-prone communities in Puerto Rico

López-Marrero, Tania; Yarnal, Brent - In: Natural Hazards 52 (2010) 2, pp. 277-297

, this article supports and enhances that literature by placing floods within a wider context of other risks and determining … how everyday risks influence people’s perceptions of and capacity to adapt to floods. Participatory methods are used to … elicit the everyday risks that concern community members. The analysis reveals that participants perceive floods as one of …

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The dynamics of vulnerability: some preliminary thoughts about the occurrence of ‘radical surprises’ and a case study on the 2002 flood (Germany)

Kuhlicke, Christian - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 671-688

This paper develops a view of vulnerability attempting to capture a constitutive dimension of most disasters, that is their radically surprising moment. Therefore, it builds a conceptual framework, which captures the moment of surprise itself, as well as, its consequences for people by...

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Preliminary flood risk assessment: the case of Athens

Kandilioti, Georgia; Makropoulos, Christos - In: Natural Hazards 61 (2012) 2, pp. 441-468

. However, with the recent introduction of the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC), the need for reliable, but cost effective, risk …

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Assessing river flood risk and adaptation in Europe—review of projections for the future

Kundzewicz, Zbigniew; Lugeri, Nicola; Dankers, Rutger; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 7, pp. 641-656

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River flood risk and adaptation in Europe—assessment of the present status

Lugeri, Nicola; Kundzewicz, Zbigniew; Genovese, Elisabetta - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 7, pp. 621-639

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Fiscal policy response of local governments to floods in Italy

Lodi, Chiara; Marin, Giovanni; Modica, Marco - 2022

floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a …

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Vulnerability and Coping to Disasters: A Study of Household Behaviour in Flood Prone Region of India

K, Narayanan; Patnaik, Unmesh - eSocialSciences - 2010

against the risks. The study area (districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) is highly susceptible to floods with a major …

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Vulnerability to poverty following extreme weather events in Malawi

Baquie, Sandra; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020

Severe weather shocks recurrently hit Malawi, and they adversely affect the incomes of many farm households as well as small businesses. With climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase further. A clear understanding of households' vulnerability to...

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