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Application of Monte Carlo simulation technique for flood estimation for two catchments in New South Wales, Australia
Caballero, Wilfredo; Rahman, Ataur - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 3, pp. 1475-1488
The currently adopted rainfall-based design flood estimation method in Australia, known as design event approach (DEA), has a flaw that is widely criticized by the hydrologists. The DEA is based on the assumption that a rainfall depth of a certain frequency can be transformed to a flood peak of...
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Regionalisation of design rainfalls in Victoria Australia for design flood estimation by joint probability approach
Kader, Faruk; Brisbane; Rahman, Ataur - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2004
probability IFD data, which were then used to estimate design floods using the Joint Probability Approach. Further research is …
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Drought and Flood Risk, Impacts and Adaptation Options for Resilience in Rural Communities of Uganda
Lwasa, Shuaib - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 9 (2018) 1, pp. 36-50
analyzes vulnerability and impacts of climate change from droughts and floods in a rural community with varied geographies … central part of the semi-arid zone, droughts and floods impacts on livelihoods, people and assets are eroding the asset … resource dependent community like many others, evidence strongly suggests increasing climate risks of droughts and floods the …
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An Integrated Method for Assessing the Text Content Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Management
Rajabifard, Abbas; Kalantari, Mohsen; Hung, Kuo-Chih - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 2, pp. 1-17
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) has the potential to provide much-needed information for emergency management stakeholders. However, stakeholders often lack scalability to identify useful and high-quality text content from the often-overwhelming amount of information. To solve this...
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Environmental Disasters and Migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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Impacts of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Food Security, and Natural Resources and Environment in the Philippines
Israel, Danilo C.; Briones, Roehlano M. - 2012
This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods … that can be undertaken. The study found that: a) typhoons, floods, and droughts have an insignificant impact on … with the impacts of typhoons; and d) the different impacts of typhoons, floods, and droughts on the natural resources and …
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Disasters, Poverty, and Coping Strategies: The Framework and Empirical Evidence from Micro/Household Data - Philippine Case
Israel, Danilo C.; Briones, Roehlano M. - 2014
disasters.Furthermore, based on own estimation done, the study found that the occurrence and frequency of typhoons and/or floods …
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Natural disasters and human mobility
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors find that disasters increase migration, others show that...
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Climate, urbanization, and conflict: The effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder
Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in … hypothesis using a novel dataset on floods−distinguishing those that affected large cities directly from those that … occurred outside of our sample of large cities. Floods are found to be associated with faster growth of the population in the …
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Natural disasters and labor market outcomes in Mexico
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Lopez de la … - 2023
. Using panel data and a two-way fixed effects estimation, the analysis focuses on storms, floods, wildfires, and landslides …
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