Flooding can cause major disruptions in cities, and lead to significant impacts on people, the
economy and on the environment. These impacts may be exacerbated by climate and socio …

Damage assessments of natural hazards supply crucial information to decision support and
policy development in the fields of natural hazard management and adaptation planning to …

近年来, 在全球气候变化和城市化快速发展的共同影响下, 中国城市洪涝灾害日益严重,
已经成为影响中国城市公共安全的突出问题, 严重制约经济社会的持续健康发展 …

In August 2022, one of the most severe floods in the history of Pakistan was triggered due to
the exceptionally high monsoon rainfall. It has affected~ 33 million people across the …

Transport networks underpin economic activity by enabling the movement of goods and
people. During extreme weather events transport infrastructure can be directly or indirectly …

River flooding can be a highly destructive natural hazard. Numerous approaches have been
used to study the phenomenon; however, insufficient knowledge regarding flood …

Improvements in modelling power and input data have vastly improved the precision of
physical flood models, but translation into economic outputs requires depth–damage …

Based on the data of physical geography and social economy, an index system of
Wuchengxiyu Region was constructed with the disaster-inducing factors, disaster-pregnant …

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

Applied flood risk analyses, especially in urban areas, very often pose the question how
detailed the analysis needs to be in order to give a realistic figure of the expected risk. The …