Social inequalities in flooding inside and outside of floodplains during Hurricane Harvey

KT Smiley - Environmental Research Letters, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
While previous research often finds flood impacts outside of conventional flood risk zones
such as FEMA's 100-year floodplain maps, we have less of a sense of the social and …

Leveraging machine learning for predicting flash flood damage in the Southeast US

A Alipour, A Ahmadalipour… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Flash flood is a recurrent natural hazard with substantial impacts in the Southeast US
(SEUS) due to the frequent torrential rainfalls that occur in the region, which are triggered by …

Retrospective and prospective evaluations of drought and flood

W Shao, J Kam - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate extremes will be intensified and become more frequent. One of the regions where
this is the case is the US Gulf coast region. This region is susceptible to the impacts of …

Simulating flood risk in Tampa Bay using a machine learning driven approach

H Dey, MM Haque, W Shao, M VanDyke, F Hao - npj Natural Hazards, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) models can simulate flood risk by identifying critical non-
linear relationships between flood damage locations and flood risk factors (FRFs). To …

Comparing public perceptions of sea level rise with scientific projections across five states of the US Gulf Coast region

W Shao, H Moftakhari, H Moradkhani - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Sea level rise (SLR) in the twenty-first century poses fundamental risks to coastal residents.
The US Gulf of Mexico Coast (Gulf Coast) is among the regions experiencing the most rapid …

[HTML][HTML] The determinants affecting the intention of urban residents to prepare for flood risk in China

T Wang, Y Lu, T Liu, Y Zhang… - Natural Hazards and …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
In the context of global warming and China's disaster response patterns, it is critical to
understand how to promote the effectiveness of household flood protection measures …

Adoption of perennial energy crops in the US Midwest: Causal and heterogeneous determinants

P Yang, X Cai, C Leibensperger, M Khanna - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2021 - Elsevier
The success of a bioenergy policy relies largely on the wide adoption of perennial energy
crops at the farm-scale. This study uses survey data to examine potential adoption decisions …

Social and environmental justice implications of flood-related road closures in Virginia

PJ Ruess, Z Khalid, CM Ferreira, JL Kinter - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental justice research historically focuses on assessing and understanding direct
impacts of environmental risk on socio-economically varied areas. Limited work has …

The presence of moral hazard regarding flood insurance and German private businesses

P Hudson, AH Thieken - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
There is a movement towards the concepts of integrated flood risk management and
governance. In these concepts, each stakeholder prone to flooding is tasked with actively …

Enhancing Flood Risk Analysis in Harris County: Integrating Flood Susceptibility and Social Vulnerability Mapping

H Dey, W Shao, MM Haque, M VanDyke - Journal of Geovisualization and …, 2024 - Springer
Due to climate change, the frequency and intensity of floods have dramatically increased
worldwide. The innate social inequality has been exposed and even exacerbated by …