Coastal zones worldwide have been subjected to increasingly high anthropic pressures over the last 50 years. The rapid urban growth rate together with the acceleration of Climate Change are boosting negative impacts on a ...

Flash floods are one of the most damaging natural hazards in tropics. Seasonal and extraordinary rainfall recurrently trigger flash floods in Costa Rica. Hurricane Otto was the first reported hurricane to have ever passed ...

The aim of this study is to establish the location of the urban areas with risk of flood in Itaqui/RS, located at the edges of the Uruguai River in Western RS. To achieve this goal a data base of flooding was organized ...

Based on the problems of riverside flooding, especially when the rivers are located in urban areas, the present study had the objective of analyzing flood data from the Uruguay River downstream of the UHE Foz do Chapecó, ...

The discussions and reflections about natural disasters and risk areas configuration increasingly appear as significant themes, whether in the media who report events relating to this matter, or in academia, where the ...

During the last decade, climate change has generated extreme rainfall events triggering flash floods in short periods worldwide. The delimitation of flood zones by detailed mapping generally makes it possible to avoid ...