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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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Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to human lives and development and can …
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Motozintla indicates that the Xelajú Grande River has been a pathway for similar large floods during the last 6000 years. The … floods have occurred during the last 100 years, a time period defined by a stratigraphically distinct tephra of 1902 … floods. Unfortunately, prior to the publication of this study, in early October 2005, Motozintla was seriously damaged again …
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, 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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China suffers frequent and severe floods. A lot of studies have been done in the field of flood disaster, including …
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As a result of the massive deforestation and windfalling in Romania last year, catastrophic floods frequently occur … Romania is especially affected, that is, the drainage basins of the Siret and Prut Rivers. The floods of 2008 affected the …
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The necessity of estimating the degree and spatial extent of positive impacts with regard to protecting communities and properties through potential flood control projects can be considered one of the main reasons for performing flood modeling. This paper presents an overall systematic approach...
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) using Bayesian networks for estimating human risks due to dam-break floods. A Bayesian network is constructed according to a …
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