Effective disaster risk management relies on science-based solutions to close the gap between prevention and preparedness measures. The consultation on the United Nations post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction highlights the need for cross-border early warning systems to strengthen the preparedness phases of disaster risk management, in order to save lives and property and reduce the o...

Flood defence maintenance strategies require understanding of the time-dependent behaviour of flood defences. Quantitative risk and reliability methods provide a rational decision-making basis for flood defence management. Failure mechanisms influencing the flood defence reliability are expressed by a limit state equation and organised in a fault tree. One or more random variables in the limit ...

The worsening flood condition in Malaysia has pressed for researches towards improved handling to the overall aspect of flood management. A special interest was stirred by the success of the Kemaman district over its success in reducing the impact during the severe flood of December 2014. This paper hope to shed some light on the factors and characteristics of the Kemaman practices that has mad...

Information is provided on the approach and experience in flood management in the Piemonte Region. Actual practices comprise mainly: (i) the structural mitigation of floods; and (ii) non-structural safety measures subdivided into land use planning and emergency plan activation through hydrometeorological forecasting and the development of an Alert System for flood forecasting and warning. Of pa...

The main approach to design flood estimation in Australia is event-based with the use of flood hydrograph models such as RORB, WBNM and URBS the most common practice for estimating design floods via rainfall based approaches. A characteristic of these models is that the routing of rainfall excess is distributed within the catchment, the amount of routing depending on the amount of sub-division ...

BACKGROUND Flood preparedness empowers the community to respond effectively to related hazards. However, there was no research done in the country concerning household flood preparedness. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess household flood preparedness and associated factors in the flood-prone community of Dembia district, northwest Ethiopia. METHODS A community-based cross-section...

flooding, which is an overflow of water, brings massive biological and economic problems all around the world and disrupts many people’s lives. based on several effective factors in flood occurrence as well as unknown relationships between parameters, researchers have used various methods to forecast flood over the past decade. an investigation of the conducted studies on flood forecasting reve...

One of the key security threats on the Internet are the compromised machines that can be used to launch various security attacks such as spamming and spreading malware, accessing useful information and DDoS. Attackers for spamming activity are volunteer by large number of compromised machines. Our main focus is on detection of the compromised machines in a network that may be or are involved in...

Anticipated future temperature changes in the mountainous U.S. Pacific Northwest will cause reduced spring snow pack, earlier melt, earlier spring peak flow and lower summer flow in transient rain-snow and snowmelt dominant river basins. In the context of managed flood control, these systematic changes are likely to disrupt the balance between flood control and reservoir refill in existing rese...