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Interjurisdictional coastal management in metropolitan areas
(Elsevier, 2017-11)
Coastal management requires intersectorial and interjurisdictional coordination but this approach can be difficult to implement in complex systems like the metropolitan areas. This paper deals with the different ways of ...
Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south-eastern coast (1975-2013)
(Wiley, 2018)
In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in economic losses caused by flood events on the coastal region of south-eastern Spain. The increase of extreme rainfall events forecast by the climate change models ...
Urban growth and flood disasters in the coastal river basin of south-central chile (1943-2011)
(2017)
Urban flooding is an increasing problem in developing countries, thus understanding flood dynamics is necessary to establish guidelines on urban development and flood management. This paper studied the lower reaches of the ...
Analysis of flood pulse dynamics in the lower basin of the San Pedro River (northwestern Mexico) using remote sensing
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2017)
Assessment of hydro-geomorphological hazard potentials in the Chilean semiarid coastal range and its impacts on La Serena city, Coquimbo Region
(Springer, 2017)
Two micro-catchments, tributaries of the Elqui River in the coastal range of the semiarid central-northern Chile were analyzed to establish the hazard potentials associated with extreme rainfall and their effects on the ...
Projections of Potential Flood Regime Changes in California
(2009-03)
Floods have been a recurring theme in California’s climatology, hydrology, and politics
throughout its history. Today, California's aging water supply and flood protection
infrastructures are challenged by major floods ...
Projections of Potential Flood Regime Changes in California
(2009-03)
Floods have been a recurring theme in California’s climatology, hydrology, and politics
throughout its history. Today, California's aging water supply and flood protection
infrastructures are challenged by major floods ...
The effects of climate change in the coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean: evaluation of systems for protecting corals and mangroves in Cuba
(ECLAC, 2018-11-21)
Flood risk in coastal areas has increased significantly in recent years. Historically, the response to this risk has been based on conventional solutions, such as building artificial dykes or enlarging or raising the ...
Aquaculture and Coastal Zone Management in Bangladesh
(Coastal Management, 2014)