thefor local Flood Alerts and Flood Warnings. These pages are updated every 15mins. Aimee Thomas-Owen, NRW’s Duty Tactical Manager said: “We expect significant rainfall this afternoon (22 May) and into the evening, so we could be issuing flood alerts and warnings in the evening and into ...
Floods are becoming more frequent and severe, with major impacts on human health. Here, authors show increased risks of infant mortality associated with flood exposure, and the risks remain elevated for up to four years after the flood event. ...
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas. This study explores the geography of flood exposure and social vulnerability in the conterminous United...
Location map of study area showing the five study sites relative to the major population centres of Cairns, Townsville and Mackay in North Queensland, Australia. Green dots represent mainland sites and the yellow dot is an island site. Also shown are the boundaries of the model gates of the R...
Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether these events actually fulfill this transformative role around the world. Here, we investigate relationships between the
The potentially large volume of oceanic natural gas hydrate (NGH) resources, combined with new understanding of the NGH petroleum system and demonstrated exploration techniques, suggests that near-term extraction of natural gas from the resource is feasi
We thank Simon Abele at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, for his contribution in assembling the OpenStreetMap network data set. We are also grateful to Dr. Raghav Pant for coding the input from the flood results, Scott Thacker at the ECI, and Valerie Bevan ...
globalization, resource distribution, and lack of access to education and health opportunities—amongst many other development challenges—are linked to each other and tend to overlap to cause the most adverse impacts for those who have the fewest choices, resources, and abilities for addressing the ...
A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts. Nat. Hazrds 2012, 64, 73–105. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Baker, S.M. Vulnerability and resilience in natural disasters: A marketing and public policy perspective. J Public Policy Mark. 2009, ...
Providing a constant water level for a power plant nearby and for the hydroelectric power plant at the southern edge of the lake, - Irrigation of the surrounding agricultural areas, - Providing flood protection and shipping, - Recreation, easing the increasing crowdedness of Lake Balaton, the most...