Mitigation and adaptation have become two main strategies that governments around the world are focusing on in response to the threat of global climate change. In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot heavily damaged the central and southern parts of Taiwan, causing irreversible damage to the environment, especially in the mountain areas. In this study, the goal is to attain sustainable reservoir manage...

In 2016, 197 nations signed the Paris Agreement and committed to limiting global temperature rise well below 2 o C [1], thus making understanding the potential for forests to mitigate climate change more important than ever. It is clear that by implementing region-specific mitigation strategies the forest sector can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions [2]. However, while for...

A zero-dimensional energy balance model was previously developed to serve as a user-friendly mitigation tool for practitioners seeking to study the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Accordingly, this established model is applied here to show the relative effects of four common mitigation strategies: increasing the overall (1) emissivity, (2) percentage of vegetated area, (3) thermal conductivity,...

Abstract Floods are frequent hazard in Algeria. They cause severe casualties, destroy infrastructures, and impair economies. In the past decades, Algeria experienced devastating floods. The dominant type of occurring floods flash floods, which tend to be not well documented studied This chapter presents a brief introduction flood phenomena within Algerian climatic management context, based on d...

Dependency Risk Graphs have been proposed as a tool to analyze the cascading failures of Critical Infrastructure (CI) dependency chains. However, dependency chain analysis is not by itself sufficient for developing an efficient risk mitigation strategy, i.e. a strategy that defines which CI nodes should have high priority for the application of mitigation controls, in order to achieve the optim...