Search Results - subject:"Non-structural measures"

Elevating Pakistan's flood preparedness : a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach

Alam, Zeshan; Ali, Yousaf; Pamucar, Dragan - In: Financial innovation : FIN 10 (2024), pp. 1-27

In South Asia, Pakistan has a long and deadly history of floods that cause losses to various infrastructures, lives, and industries. This study aims to identify the most appropriate flood risk mitigation strategies that the government of Pakistan should adopt. The assessment of flood risk...

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Valoración de riesgos por inundaciones

Osés-Eraso, Nuria; Foudi, Sébastien - 2020

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Nature-based, structural, or soft measures of adaptation? Preferences for climate change adaptation measures to limit damages from droughts

Ščasný, Milan; Zvěřinová, Iva; Hunt, Alistair - 2019

The objective of this paper is to examine preferences of citizens of three European countries regarding various adaptation plans and measures to limit damages from drought under climate changes. For this purpose, we conducted a survey in the Czech Republic, Italy, and the United Kingdom. We...

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Nature-based, structural, or soft measures of adaptation? : preferences for climate change adaptation measures to limit damages from droughts

Ščasný, Milan; Zvěřinová, Iva; Hunt, Alistair - 2019

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Planning for a different kind of sea change : lessons from Australia for sea level rise and coastal flooding

Dedekorkut-Howes, Ayşın; Torabi, Elnaz; Howes, Michael - In: Climate policy 21 (2021) 2, pp. 152-170

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Two birds with one stone : improving ecological quality and flood protection through river restoration in Northern Italy

Massarutto, Antonio; De Carli, Alessandro - In: Economics and policy of energy and the environment 56 (2014) 1, pp. 93-121

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Economic evaluation of structural and non-structural flood risk management measures: examples from the Mulde River

Meyer, Volker; Priest, Sally; Kuhlicke, Christian - In: Natural Hazards 62 (2012) 2, pp. 301-324

structural, hydraulic engineering measures, but also by non-structural measures, like, e.g., land-use planning, warning and … evacuation systems. However, few methods currently exist for the economic evaluation of such non-structural measures and, hence … methodologies which may be employed to evaluate non-structural measures and their transaction costs. In two case studies at the …

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A Study on Womenfs Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal: A Case Study of Training Women for Safer Homes

Saito, Yoko; Murosaki, Yoshiteru - In: Japan Social Innovation Journal 2 (2012) 1, pp. 18-25

This empirical study focuses on women's potential roles in Community-Based Disaster Management through a training program developed for women based on the preliminary research, which targeted three communities within the Kathmandu Valley. The study assessed the process of developing the training...

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A Study on Women's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal: A Case Study of Training Women for Safer Homes

SAITO, Yoko; MUROSAKI, Yoshiteru - In: Japan Social Innovation Journal 2 (2012) 1, pp. 18-18

This empirical study focuses on women's potential roles in Community-Based Disaster Management through a training program developed for women based on the preliminary research, which targeted three communities within the Kathmandu Valley.The study assessed the process of developing the training...

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Establishing the Database of Inundation Potential in Taiwan

Chen, Albert; Hsu, Ming-Hsi; Teng, Wei-Hsien; Huang, … - In: Natural Hazards 37 (2006) 1, pp. 107-132

the design standard and cannot prevent the damages when floods exceed certain scale. Therefore, non-structural measures … inundation potential database that provides required information for the non-structural measures in Taiwan. The database was …

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