The Nile Flood

The use of flood risk map for flood management (urban area of Nekarood)

Flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. This case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. Therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. Considering the development in Iran has been carried out in high risk...

The Securitization Flash Flood

What caused the flood of securitized products in the years immediately preceding the crisis? This paper presents evidence that demand for safe collateral in repo markets made it attractive for financial institutions to issue securitized products. Using the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) as a natural experiment that shocked the demand for collateral, this p...

58 The Genesis Flood

After the flood.

When the World Trade Centre was destroyed in New York on 11 September 2001, I felt devastation for all the victims of this atrocity. This included the terrorist themselves as well as the families of the dead and injured and of the perpetrators. When America used this atrocity as a reason to attack Iraq I was very disturbed by the transposition of lines of blame to a country that had no direct l...

Hydroclimatology of the Nile

Hydroclimatology of the Nile: results from a regional climate model Y. A. Mohamed, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, H. H. G. Savenije, and W. G. M. Bastiaanssen UNESCO-IHE, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands KNMI, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands ITC (currently with WaterWatch), Generaal Foulkesweg 28,...