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A stakeholder-guided marine heatwave hazard index for fisheries and aquaculture
Marine heatwaves pose an increasing threat to fisheries and aquaculture around the world under climate change. However, the threat has not been...
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Comparison of weighting methods of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in evaluation of flood hazard index
Preparing a map of flood hazard is susceptibility an important step in flood risk management. Therefore, it is necessary to use methods that reduce...
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Geological Hazard Susceptibility Evaluation Along Pipelines Based on GIS and Integrated Index Model
The development of geological hazards along the pipeline is a major threat to pipeline safety. This paper takes the area where the natural gas...
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Determining the effect of urbanization on flood hazard zones in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, using flood hazard index and multi-criteria decision analysis
Floods are the most destructive natural hazard throughout the world. Identifying flood hazard zones is the first step in flood risk management. Land...
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Identifying the Flood Hazard Zones in Urban Area Using Flood Hazard Index (FHI)—A Case of Capital City of India
Floods are one of the most destructive natural catastrophes due to the extensive damage to property, infrastructure, and human lives. It is difficult...
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Liquefaction Potential Index (LPI): A Parameter to Assess Liquefaction Hazard
This chapter focusses on the evaluation and assessment of earthquake induced liquefaction hazard of ground using Liquefaction Potential Index (LPI)...
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The national risk index: establishing a nationwide baseline for natural hazard risk in the US
The National Risk Index developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency provides a relative measurement of community-level natural hazard risk...
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Fuzzy radon hazard index assessment for stochastic environmental health risk evaluation of urban scale building
Radon gas emission is emerging phenomenon that poses potential danger to human health as a result of modern lifestyles. Thus, it is critical to...
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Liquefaction Potential Index-Based Hazard Map** for Benghazi Sabkha Deposits of Libya
Benghazi city is the second largest city in Libya. Rapid and large infrastructural development and related economic activities in the last 20 years...
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Hazard Assessment and Hazard Map** for Kuwait
Hazard maps are essential tools to aid decision makers in land-use planning, sustainable infrastructure development, and emergency preparedness....
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Evaluation of surge hazard based on a storm surge hazard indicator along the mainland coast of China
A storm surge hazard indicator was developed based on the storm surge index and high-water index. Using this indicator, the storm surge hazard along...
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Double-index rainfall warning and probabilistic physically based model for fast-moving landslide hazard analysis in subtropical-typhoon area
In subtropical typhoon-prone regions, landslides are triggered by short-duration intense rainfall and prolonged periods of elevated pore-water...
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Modifying BEHI (Bank Erosion Hazard Index) to map and assess the levels of potential riverbank erosion of highly human impacted rivers: a case study for Vietnamese Mekong river system
Sedimentation and erosion of riverbanks and canals in the Mekong Delta have been longstanding issues. However, the severity and frequency of these...
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Unveiling earthquake hazard in Noida, India: a combined probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard assessment
Noida is a satellite town in the National Capital Region of Delhi which shares a border with Delhi in the West, and Ghaziabad in the North, these are...
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Land subsidence hazard assessment based on novel hybrid approach: BWM, weighted overlay index (WOI), and support vector machine (SVM)
Land subsidence is a morphological phenomenon, which causes negative environmental and economic consequences for human societies. Therefore,...
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Hazard Modeling and Assessment of the Nile Delta Coast Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
The book presents the results of a doctoral thesis conducted under the supervision of two international governmental universities in Egypt and the...
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Hazard risk assessment of tropical cyclones based on joint probability theory
The main hazard-causing factors of tropical cyclones are strong wind, heavy rainfall, and storm surge. Evaluation of the hazard-causing degree of a...
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Entropy-Based Modelling for Flash Flood Hazard Map** in Uttarakhand Himalaya
In light of recent hazards witnessed in Uttarakhand such as Kedarnath flash flood 2013, Chamoli flash flood 2021 and Maldevta flash flood 2022, flash...
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Evaluating urban flood hazard index (UFHI) of Dehradun city using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis
Urban flooding is one of the major issues in Dehradun city. Lack of preparedness and lack of flood hazard zonation at city level resulted in...
