flood impact Articles
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Climate change, urbanisation and hydrological impacts
This paper is a review of recent studies that addressed the hydrological impacts, especially on streamflow, of climate change and/or urbanisation. Articles published between 1996 and 2002 on this subject were reviewed focusing on research methods and results. The main issues addressed with regard to research methods include development of climate change and urbanisation scenarios, assessment of ...
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Assessing potential flood vulnerability to climate change by CMIP3 and CMIP5 models: case study of the 2011 Thailand great flood
The 2011 monsoon season was exceptionally heavy, leading to extensive and long-lasting flooding in the Chao Phraya river basin. Flooding was exacerbated by rapid expansion of urban areas into flood plains and was the costliest natural disaster in the country's history, with direct damages estimated at US$ 45 billion. The present study examines the flood behavior in 2011 and flood impact from ...
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Erosive coping after the 2011 floods in Kenya
Periodic river floods have devastating social and economic impacts on poor households in the low-lying coastal and western regions of Kenya. This paper focuses on how households in Bunyala District coped with the impacts of flooding, and particularly the December 2011 River Nzoia flood. The data for the study was collected through a survey of 400 households, three focus group discussions, four ...
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Are preventive and coping measures enough to avoid loss and damage from flooding in Udayapur district, Nepal?
This case study examines household vulnerability and responses in relation to flooding in Udayapur district, Nepal. It describes how communities in this region deal with flooding and asks to what extent their preventive, coping, and adaptation measures have been successful in avoiding loss and damage. A 300-household survey, along with open interviews and focus group discussions, revealed a wide ...
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Earth Day 2016 - How trees help to reduce flooding
This year’s Earth Day will be held on April 22nd, and will be the 46th event of its kind. The event brings together people from all over the world to raise awareness, support and participation for environmental protection. This year’s event has a specific goal, dubbed ‘Trees for Earth’, which aims to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020. This ambitious goal is part of the ...
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What are the true costs of rising sea levels?
A simple relationship between sea level rise and the massive potential costs of future coastal flooding has been established by scientists in Germany. As sea levels rise, the damage to human economies rises even faster. And as sea levels rose by an estimated 14cms in the last century, and could rise by up to 130cms in this century, the coastal cities of the world could face huge bills for storm ...
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Modelling climate change impacts on the flood pulse in the Lower Mekong floodplains
The flood pulse is a key element characterizing the hydrology of the Mekong River and driving the high ecosystem productivity in the Lower Mekong floodplains, both in the Cambodian lowlands and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. This paper assesses the impacts of climate change, both in terms of changed basin water balance and sea level rise, on the Lower Mekong flood pulse. The impacts were simulated ...
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Public participation in flood risk management: the case of Germany
How can stakeholders best be involved in the implementation of the EU Floods Directive? According to recent research examining Germany as a case study, three types of strategy are being pursued across the country’s 16 federal states: the first draws on Water Framework Directive (WFD) procedures, the second meets only minimum requirements for participation and the third involves stakeholders ...
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Are young people leaving themselves at risk of flooding?
According to recent figures from the Environmental Agency, young people in the UK may be leaving themselves at risk of flood damage. Around 75% of 18-24 year olds are not aware if they are living in an area at risk of flooding in the last year. Why is this so much of a problem and what can people do to find out how at risk their property is? With the number of properties in the UK at risk of ...
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Revisiting an early PFR case study from Berkshire
Blast from the past: revisiting an early customer of Aquobex flood-resilience products A recent video (below) from the Ox-Cam Pathfinder Project, part of a mini-series of interviews to encourage Property Flood Resilience (PFR), was an interesting find for us. Not only does the 5-part series discuss the various flooding problems residents and small business owners find themselves in, but ...
By Aquobex
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River Flood Defences - Strategies for River Flooding
Flooding from main rivers is caused by heavy rainfall upstream, and can also be caused by flood surges up rivers from the sea – caused by high tides, low pressure and strong winds. River flooding is often able to be identified well in advance, and Flood Alerts are able to be used to warn those living in flood risk areas in addition to any press reporting, and river flood defences can ...
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