[HTML][HTML] An assessment of structural measures for risk reduction of hydrometeorological disasters in Sri Lanka

K Ginige, K Mendis, M Thayaparan - Progress in disaster science, 2022 - Elsevier
Sri Lanka has a high incidence of natural hazards with hydrometeorological hazards being
the most prevalent. Despite the fact that structural measures such as flood walls and …

Factors influencing flood risk mitigation after wildfire: Insights for individual and collective action after the 2010 Schultz Fire

JT Burnett, CM Edgeley - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2023 - Elsevier
Post-fire flooding is of significant concern in the US Southwest, where burned areas can
drastically alter local hydrology to increase the risk of floods and debris flows, posing new …

Policy entrepreneurs in public administration: A social network analysis

E Petridou, P Becker, J Sparf - Politics & Policy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting change in flood risk
mitigation at the local level in Sweden through a comparative study of two Swedish …

[HTML][HTML] A two-way coupled CHANS model for flood emergency management, with a focus on temporary flood defences

H Qin, Q Liang, H Chen, V De Silva - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel Coupled Human And Natural Systems (CHANS) modelling
framework that integrates a hydrodynamic model with an agent-based model at the memory …

A probabilistic approach to levee reliability based on sliding, backward erosion and overflowing mechanisms: Application to an inspired Canadian case study

F Mainguenaud, L Peyras, UT Khan… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Improving protection against fluvial floods requires a better estimation of levee failure. We
developed an assessment method of levee failure probabilities for sliding, backward …

Computing the alpha complex using dual active set quadratic programming

E Carlsson, J Carlsson - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The alpha complex is a fundamental data structure from computational geometry, which
encodes the topological type of a union of balls B (x; r)⊂ R m for x∈ S, including a weighted …

Analysis of flood fatalities in the United States, 1959–2019

Z Han, HO Sharif - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flooding is one of the main weather-related disasters that cause numerous fatalities every
year across the globe. This study examines flood fatalities reported in the contiguous United …

Use of seasonal streamflow forecasts for flood mitigation with adaptive reservoir operation: A case study of the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand, in 2011

W Kompor, S Yoshikawa, S Kanae - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Predicting streamflow can help water managers make policy decisions for individual river
basins. In 2011, heavy rainfall from May until October resulted in the largest flood event in …

Seasonal Flow Forecasting Using Satellite-Driven Precipitation Data for Awash and Omo-Gibe Basins, Ethiopia

SM Woldegebrael, BB Kidanewold, AM Melesse - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hydrologic extreme events such as flooding impact people and the environment and delay
sustainable development in flood-prone areas when it is excessive. The present study …

Comparisons of two-stage models for flood mitigation of electrical substations

B Austgen, E Kutanoglu… - INFORMS Journal …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We compare stochastic programming and robust optimization decision models for informing
the deployment of ad hoc flood mitigation measures to protect electrical substations prior to …