Floods and Droughts
Use of several indices of event severity for floods and droughts
... as floods or droughts, is that of defining the particular set of events of interest, or more specifically, defining those qualities of floods or droughts which cause most difficulties for ...
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Adapting livelihoods to floods and droughts in arid Kenya: Local perspectives and insights
... as floods and ...of floods destroying farms regardless of modern agricultural practices, the fact that respondents may still continue practicing livestock keeping, which is perceived as a strong livelihood ...
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Regional Climate Index for Floods and Droughts Using Canadian Climate Model (CGCM3 1)
... return floods was about 30% and about 15% for higher return ...return droughts and about 20% for higher return ...in floods or droughts under climate sce- narios at a given site and for ...
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Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts on Island Countries in the Western Pacific: Cyclones, Floods and Droughts
... in droughts in the ...cyclone, floods and droughts) which have re- cently affected Fiji, Samoa and Tuvalu and have caused major economic and social disruption in these ...
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300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America
... and droughts) found in our hy- drological index provides valuable information for improv- ing our understanding of Central America’s inter-annual and inter-decadal rainfall variability and its sensitivity to ...
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Future hot spots for hydro hazards in Great Britain: a probabilistic assessment
... Evidence of trends in the past hydro-climatic records sug- gests a non-stationary regime. This means that using historic records is unlikely to be sufficiently robust when planning water resource management several ...
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The political economy of development in China : political agendas and economic realities
... of floods and/prolonged droughts, or through a SARs-like health epidemic (China Daily, 2005) - as happened when those living in poverty increased in 2003 largely as a result of natural disasters (Watts, ...
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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants of Rice Production in Cambodia
... 1 Disaster measured as percentage of rice land damaged by floods, droughts, and insects to total rice actual harvested land within the year 2 Irrigation measured as percentage of prov[r] ...
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A regional approach to climate adaptation in the Nile Basin
... Previous work has shown that the Nile flows can be highly sensitive to climate change and that there is considerable uncertainty in climate projections in the region with no clear consensus as to the direction of change. ...
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Droughts and floods over the upper catchment of the Blue Nile and their connections to the timing of El Niño and La Niña events
... hydrological droughts in the Nile ...of droughts and floods in the upper catchment of the Blue Nile on the timing of El Niño and La Niña ...Nile droughts and ...in droughts in the upper ...
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Assessing Climate Change Adaptation and Health in Coastal Cambodia: The Human-Environment Interaction
... Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) will be used to understand the relationship between first-hand experience of extreme climate events (floods, storms and droughts) and household energy ...
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The changing climate and human vulnerability in north-central Namibia
... reoccurring droughts, heavy rainfall events, episodes of higher temperature and unpredictable and variable rainfall have been experienced in the past 30 to 40 years in Namibia (Kaundjua, Angula & Angombe 2012; ...
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Forecasting droughts in East Africa
... Afterward the forecast is upscaled to country level by com- paring with forecasts made in neighbouring countries. If the forecasts do not agree, the forecasters look at historical years with similar SST patterns to ...
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Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index
... by droughts? Because of the specific nature of each hazard type (rapidity of onset, spa- tial extent and destruction potential), exposures to different hazard types cannot be ...(cyclones, droughts, ...
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Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and knowledge gaps
... Existing overviews of cost assessment methods generally do not address different hazards but often focus on just one particular hazard (e.g. Fuchs and McAlpin, 2005; Merz et al., 2010). In addition, they often look at a ...
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Climate change risk on infrastructure and policy implications of appropriate mitigation measures in the Nigerian agricultural sector
... Generally, temperature and rainfall projection in Nigeria reveals hotter and drier conditions. Annual mean temperature increase of between 1-4oC is expected. Lower rainfalls are expected towards the north however due to ...
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Amazon forest response to repeated droughts
... There are long-term changes occurring in Amazonian forests, with increasing levels of turnover, even before the 2005 drought [Brienen et al., 2015; Phillips and Gentry, 1994]. This long-term increase in mortality may be ...
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Vulnerability of Maize Yields to Droughts in Uganda
... the droughts on maize ...that droughts can only be partly attributed to deficient or erratic precipitation, as droughts appear to be centered over several other drivers, including ...
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Study Of Flash Floods
... A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or melt water from ...
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Emergency Situations In The History And The Issues On Their Prevention
... There are many such examples from the past of the peoples of the world. In history, the fruit of human thinking - examples of the culture of the ancient world - 4 of the seven wonderful wonders of the world were ...
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