On a continental level, the European Commission also provides financial relief through the EU Solidarity Fund. This Fund can supplement the financial expenditures of member states for large events. However, the Solidarity Fund is insufficient to cover all eligible losses and does not encourage risk r...
Among climate hazards, flooding is by far the most pervasive risk globally1,2. Tens of millions of people around the world are displaced from their homes by flooding each year, while damages from flood events run into the hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars in direct asset losses annually3...
2. On the other hand, climate change and irregular meteorological phenomena are also causing local drought events and extreme flood more and more. 中文摘要近年来台湾地区因气候异常,极端洪水或枯旱现象日趋频繁,当发生乾旱现象过於频繁时,常会面临水资源短缺或严重匮乏之窘况。
Zhengkai;Xia;Zanhong;Wang;Qingchun;Zhao.Extreme flood events and climate change around 3500 aBP in the Central Plains of China.Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences.2004Xia Zhengkai, Wang Zhanhong, Zhao Qingchun, Extreme flood events and climate change around 3500 aBP in the Central ...
South Asia is one of the world's global climate crisis hotspots. People living in these hotspots are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts, he pointed out. "As we continue to see more and more extreme weather events around the world, it is outrageous that climate action is bei...
Around the world, the landscape itself records our long history of floods. The recent flood is easy to see in high-water marks. Sometimes people memorialize these marks, carving into stone and labeling the lines with dates, like a child's growth chart drawn on a door frame. By comparison,...
The top five deadliest floods in world history occurred when the Huang He (Yellow) River inChinaexceeded its banks. The yellow silt that provoked the river's name can pile up higher than the land around it, causing the water to spill out of its causeway and onto the flat land surrounding...
According toFlood Safety, flooding is the most common type of natural disaster worldwide. It affects tens of millions of people around the world each year and causes, on average, more than $200 billion in damages. Many communities face flood-related challenges, and the Town of Cary in North...
On the regional or continent scales, these influential factors include short-term heavy rainfall, rainfall on saturated soil, snow melt water, which individually or jointly stimulate the flood events3,37,38,39. For example, the mean flood date has altered especially in the high latitude north ...
Using high-resolution annual data, this study shows that, since 1985, human settlements around the world—from villages to megacities—have expanded continuously and rapidly into present-day flood zones. In many regions, growth in the most hazardous flood zones is outpacing growth in non-exposed ...