Storage measures as compensatory techniques for urban lowlands flood control

A Framework for Flood Risk Analysis and Benefit Assessment of Flood Control Measures in Urban Areas

Flood risk analysis is more complex in urban areas than that in rural areas because of their closely packed buildings, different kinds of land uses, and large number of flood control works and drainage systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical framework for flood risk analysis and benefit assessment of flood control measures in urban areas. Based on the concept of disaster ri...

Non-structural Measures in Urban Flood Management

Artificial intelligence techniques for flood risk management in urban environments

Urban flooding is estimated to cause £270 million pounds worth of damage each year in England and Wales alone. There has, therefore, been a clear need to develop improved methods of identifying intervention strategies to reduce flood risk in urban environments. This paper describes ground-work performed towards evaluating the relative suitability of several algorithms applied to multi-objective...

Religious belief as compensatory control.

The authors review experimental evidence that religious conviction can be a defensive source of compensatory control when personal or external sources of control are low. They show evidence that (a) belief in religious deities and secular institutions can serve as external forms of control that can compensate for manipulations that lower personal control and (b) religious conviction can also se...

Tharsis-triggered Flood Inundations of the Lowlands of Mars

James M. Dohm, Victor R. Baker, Miguel A. de Pablo, Javier Ruiz, Justin C. Ferris, Robert C. Anderson. Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain, [email protected]; Seminar on Planetary Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721; Lun...