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Flood is the most frequently and devastating natural disaster that kills people in thousands. Its consequences are profound, particularly on people in the less developed countries as in Nigeria. Emerging evidence shows that women suffer disproportionately in all disasters as they are made more...
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In this paper, we present the changing properties of losses due to occurrences of droughts, floods and typhoon … activities on droughts and floods are also analysed. Results based on extensive and thorough investigations indicate that (1 … attached to droughts, but not solely to floods, in the Guangdong province; (2) low-lying terrain of the Guangdong province …
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meteorological disasters, including droughts, floods, tropical storms, snowstorms and hail disasters. Based on the analysis about … areas by floods and heavy rain. While Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Shandong are mainly affected by …
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of severe floods. Taking recent case studies with the UK Fire Service, the patterns of vulnerability, in terms of demand …
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the rivers is carried out during the monsoonseason in general and the monsoon floods in particular. Indian rivers … magnitude, frequency and power of floods, on account of regional variations in monsoon rainfall, basin characteristics … hydrological and geomorphological aspects, as well asthe geomorphic effects of monsoon floods in the Indian rivers. The geomorphic …
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This paper examines the nature and causes of September 2004 hazardous flood that affected the dry and drought prone southwestern region of Bangladesh. It also examines human perception of this new hazard and their methods of adjustments to its negative impacts. Field research for this study...
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combined risk of severe river floods and urban drainage floods is relatively high when compared with the other more damaging …
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Although flood risk assessments are frequently associated with significant uncertainty, formal uncertainty analyses are the exception rather than the rule. We propose to separate two fundamentally different types of uncertainty in flood risk analyses: aleatory and epistemic uncertainty. Aleatory...
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A sound, evidence-based hazard mapping requires the analysis of stochastic processes taking place at critical configurations (e.g., bridges, levees) in order to reliably determine the spatial patterns of flood intensities and probabilities. Here, we discuss an approach aiming to support an...
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The most direct method of design flood estimation is at-site flood frequency analysis, which relies on a relatively long period of recorded streamflow data at a given site. Selection of an appropriate probability distribution and associated parameter estimation procedure is of prime importance...
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