floodsinfrastructure damageinfrastructure resilienceinfrastructure servicesEvents associated with climate change such as floods increase outages of infrastructure services. Developing countries largely react rather than being proactive in managing the effects of floods on infrastructure. This is clearly demonstrated...
The perceptions of those affected by floods are critical to the successful implementation of adaptation responses; risk perceptions are affected by how information is communicated and, in turn, perceptions influence expectations on flood risk managers to respond. The links between flood experience, risk...
depending on the social context at the moment the shock happens. This can clearly be seen with the Black Death, which killed a similar share of the population in many societies and in the short run resulted in reduced
Among all natural hazards inflicting the United States floods continue to impose the most economic disruption. Increasing physical risk coupled with development in flood-prone areas has amplified the adverse economic and human impacts of flooding. In an effort to counter mounting flood losses, the U...
C.They can’t effectively prevent floods. D.They aren’t influenced by overfishing. 2. Which of the following is true according to paragraph 3? A.A terrible hurricane attacked Australia in 2015. B.Scientists paid little attention to coral reefs before. ...
Worse still, if water melts too fast, it arrives in the form of floods, which people in the area are already experiencing. 2【题文】 Despite being the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest can’t escape the effects of climate change. According to two new studies published in iScience and...
floods, andvolcanic eruptions, change ecosystems drastically by eliminating local populations of some species and transforming wholebiological communities. Such disturbances are temporary, however, because natural disturbances are common and ecosystems have adapted to their challenges (see alsoecological ...
The Pantanal’s seasonal hydrological changes have their greatest impact on the region’s wildlife when the regime of floods and droughts is unusually severe. 3.1. Historical Records of Floods and Droughts Historical records collected at Ladário (Figure 2) show that during the period from 1962/...
Natural disasters—from hurricanes and earthquakes to droughts and floods—have the power not only to upend the lives of local residents but also to create a substantial expense for governments and businesses. Larger disasters, such as Hurricanes Helene, Katrina, and Harvey, have left hundreds of ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 06 January 2016 accepted: 17 June 2016 Published: 18 July 2016 Distributed lag effects and vulnerable groups of floods on bacillary dysentery in Huaihua, China Zhi-Dong Liu1,2,*, Jing Li1,2,*,Ying Zhang3, Guo-Yong Ding4, Xin X...