flood protection
Overcoming the barriers to installing property level flood protection: An overview of successful case studies
... of flood risk management policy in the UK have led to an increased emphasis on making space for ...of flood can or will benefit from traditional engineered flood defences, the need arises to ...
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Economic evaluation of climate risk adaptation strategies: Cost-benefit analysis of flood protection in Tabasco, Mexico
... local flood risk levels and the economic efficiency of flood protection strategies to the rivers and coastline of the Mexican state of ...of flood protection depends on the uncertainty ...
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The effectiveness of a flood protection computer game for disaster education
... level, flood-prone areas become harder to ...about flood protection through the game, but also for their learning motivation to be triggered through ...about flood protec- tion and encourage ...
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Managing uncertainty in flood protection planning with climate projections
... Technical flood protection is a necessary part of integrated strategies to protect riverine settlements from extreme ...technical flood protection measures, such as dikes and protection ...
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Property level flood protection: A new effective and affordable solution
... risk flood areas have not yet adopted any flood protection despite the high profile attention given to flood events by the media ...level protection remains ...UK flood victims ...
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Development of Deformation-Based Limit States for Reliability Assessment of Flood Protection Earth Dams and Levees.
... Traditional design approaches based on the concept of factor of safety do not provide a complete indicator of level of safety pertinent to earth structures given uncertainties in loading, soil properties, and changes in ...
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Towards modelling flood protection investment as a coupled human and natural system
... of flood protection ...narrow flood protection approach has evolved into broader flood risk management (FRM) approaches that consider the economic, social and environmental dimensions ...
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Hess Opinions: An interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the unintended consequences of structural flood protection
... structural flood protection, there is also a need for comparative analysis of the evolution of urban planning and risk assessment poli- cies, legislation and practices – including issues such as the ...
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Wave attenuation over marshlands : determination of marshland influences on New Orleans' flood protection
... This project focuses particularly on the situation in the surroundings of New Orleans. The city is located in the coastal area and it is partly separated from the sea by marshlands. The marshlands which influence ...
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Implementation of Flood Protection Works in Himachal Pradesh: A Critique
... of flood plains and minimizing loss of life and ...that flood protection is often presumed to be a public good and hence a government ...the flood protection ...current flood ...
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NON-STRUCTURAL FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES AND FLOOD RISK REDUCTION IN NIGERIA
... a flood protection ...of flood protection, in cost-benefit framework; with the account of sustainability ...and flood protection are deeply rooted in the society – the general ...
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Significance of Mangroves in Flood Protection of Coastal area: A Case Study of Mithi River, Mumbai, India
... By reducing flood wave and trapping silt, mangroves maintain the integrity of Mumbai’s shoreline. This is a vital service to the city of Mumbai as it is very prone to erosion, having been built on reclaimed land ...
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Waterproofing basement apartments: Technical insights of a new flood protection solution
... Installing perimeter floor drains is a waterproofing option used inside buildings, which manages water ingress in basements. Newly designed products providing a means to access the inverts of perimeter floor drains and ...
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Space modeling in management of landscape flood-protection measures
... Článek si klade za cíl prostředky prostorového modelování a následných analýz navrhnout kom- plexní přístup k rozboru příčin lokálních záplav sledovaného území povodí Moštěnky, zhodnot[r] ...
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HESS Opinions "Classification of hydrological models for flood management"
... large flood plains, and (d) urban areas, as indicated schematically in ...of flood protection ...bank protection works and structures – as in villages where houses have been built too close to ...
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Property level flood adaptation measures: A novel approach
... in flood defences, it is not economically viable to protect all at risk properties from the threat of ...level flood protection and has called for the development of new innovative flood ...
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Are homeowners willing to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change?
... of flood-protection measures, the only condition that was met was the awareness of the problem of ...or flood measures all suggest that there are still significant barriers to overcome before ...
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Household behaviour in installing property level flood adaptations: A literature review
... of flood-risk can be a very emotional process; it is argued that many people tend rather to rely on government to act and insurers to provide compensation [8, 42] ...install flood protection and buy ...
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Bangkok and the second Bangkok International Airport : politics of planning and development
... Part III : The Implications of the Politics and Planning and 225 Development Chapter Seven: The Second Bangkok International Airport and Flood Protection.. I Geography of Bangkok 7.1.2 C[r] ...
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Risk-based flood protection planning under climate change and modeling uncertainty: a pre-alpine case study
... Risk-based flood protection planning has a long history (Clark, 1980; James and Hall, 1986; Lund, 2002) and ap- proaches to account for uncertainty in the risk estimate have also been developed for some ...
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