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Climate change impacts on the Mediterranean Coastal Zones

Brochier, Frédéric; Ramieri, Emiliano - 2001

Climate change is widely recognised as a serious threat to the world's environment. The Mediterranean basin is considered as a unique scaled down model to assess the severity of potential climate change impacts on coastal zones. The paper examines the regional differences in the vulnerability of...

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Peculiarities of tsunamis generated by Asteroid impact or nuclear explosions in the northwest of Black Sea

Isvoranu, D.; Badescu, V. - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 45-66

Different models are used to evaluate the seashore effects of the tsunami generated by an asteroid impacting the … is about 185 km. The tsunami’s effects on the coastal regions depend on many factors among which the most important is … asteroid size. The tsunami generated by a 250-m asteroid reaches the nearest dry land location in 35 min and needs about 2 h to …

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Risk Preferences, Risk Perceptions, and Demand for Flood Insurance

Petrolia, Daniel R. - 2013

We combine household-level data on the choice to purchase flood insurance with experiment-based risk preference data and subjective risk perception data. The sample covers a wide geographic area (the entire U.S. Gulf Coast and Florida's Atlantic Coast) and includes individuals exposed to varying...

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Urban Flooding and Sustainable Land Management – Polish Perspective

Kundzewicz, Zbigniew - 2014

There have been many events connected with damaging abundance of water in Polish towns in recent decades. Some of them have been caused by flood waves on rivers passing through towns. Others have been caused by intense precipitation overwhelming the capacity of storm sewer systems. A brief...

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Estimations of Flood Waste from Rural Dumpsites Located on Floodplains from Neamţ, County, Romania

Mihai, Florin - 2015

Waste dumping is a serious environmental threat to major rivers from extra- Carpathian Region of Neamţ county in the proximity of villages because the lack of waste collection services. In this context, floodplains are frequently susceptible to such bad practices, these areas being also exposed...

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Flood Hazards : A Case Study of the Floods in Bangladesh, Asia (Presentation Slides)

Lemenkova, Polina - 2019

The presentation describes problem of flooding in Bangladesh: Among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. Frequent natural disasters, loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, impacts on lives and livelihoods. Floods, tropical cyclones, storm surges and...

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Modeling tropical cyclone risk while accounting for climate change and natural infrastructure in the Caribbean

Reguero, Borja G.; Menéndez Fernández, Pelayo; … - 2023

This chapter describes tools and a methodology to model wind and flood risks from tropical storms under present and future climate accounting for natural infrastructure. Wind forcing provide a crucial link to hydrodynamic models that can be used in risk assessments to estimate extent of and...

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Estimating and mapping natural hazards and risk reduction provided by coastal ecosystems

Arkema, Katie; Bailey, Allison; Cerón, Valeria Chávez; … - 2023

We present two case studies in which coastal vulnerability modeling was used to quantify the role those coastal ecosystems play in reducing risk to coastal communities now and with future sealevel rise. These analyses were used to inform post-disaster reconstruction and coastal resilience...

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An overview of the vulnerability of Venice to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise

Ramieri, Emiliano - 2000

The scientific community agrees on the fact that climate change and consequent impacts will not be uniform on the planet but will assume specific regional and local characteristics. Some regions of the world will therefore be more vulnerable than others. In this perspective the assessment of a...

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Climate change and coastal zones: An overview of the state-of-the-art on regional and local vulnerability assessment

Sterr, Horst; Klein, Richard; Reese, Stefan - 2000

This paper provides an overview of the latest developments in methodologies for assessing the vulnerability of coastal zones to climate change at regional and local scales. The focus of vulnerability assessment in coastal zones used to be on erosion and land loss due to sea-level rise....

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