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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the unseen negative effects of the post-Katrina government policies dealing with housing in New Orleans. Design/methodology/approach – Since Hurricane Katrina, the government, along with private for profit and not-for-profit...
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The recent floods in Pakistan have had a devastating effect on the Pakistani population. The Office for the … the stakeholders. In the immediate aftermath of the floods, a provision of compensation based on loss of livelihoods might … lessons learned from the relief and rehabilitation response to the 2010 floods should be incorporated in contingency plans for …
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We analyze the economic impacts of floods using new data on 3,184 large flood events in 118 countries between 1985 and …
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Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set … need to do to make our communities safer from floods. …
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areas, despite the fact that during the time of extraordinary floods, the village of Chľaba is completely separated from the … extraordinary floods (June 2013) and to propose flood protection arrangements within the landscape utilization changes in affected … village. This attitude might reduce the negative impact of floods in the researched endangered territory. Copyright Springer …
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important natural hazards, in terms of past human and economic damage they caused, are storms, floods, extreme temperatures and …
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countries of Europe, focusing on society’s ability to co-exist with floods, rather than be protected from them. In this context …
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flood, persisting floods in the city were noted in the Chiang Mai Chronicle and were also recorded in the floodplain … alleviate the effects of persisting floods. From this story of paleofloods and Wiang Kum Kam, we conclude with two lessons for … the management of modern floods in urban Thailand. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 …
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