Spotlight article “Flood hazards in urban environment”

Towards An Intelligent Environment for Urban Flood Rescue Scenarios

In a city devastated by flood is common that communication infrastructure is disrupted. An alternate communication infrastructure to provide basic services to victims is proposed in this paper. We introduce an intelligent environment design to handle urban flood alert and rescue scenarios. It is based on three different types of wireless communication networks: a Wireless Sensor Network to meas...

Flood hazards and masonry constructions: a probabilistic framework for damage, risk and resilience at urban scale

This paper deals with the failure risk of masonry constructions under the effect of floods. It is developed within a probabilistic framework, with loads and resistances considered as random variables. Two complementary approaches have been investigated for this purpose: – a global approach based on combined effects of several governing parameters with individual weighted contribution (material ...

Pharmaceutical Pollution in the Environment and Health Hazards

Visual Audit of Food Safety Hazards Present in Homes in an Urban Environment

Research utilizing both survey and observational techniques has found that consumers do not accurately report their own food handling behaviors. The goal of this study was to objectively observe conditions related to food safety risks and sanitation in domestic kitchens in an urban environment. Subjects (n = 100) were recruited from Philadelphia, PA. Homes were visited over a oneyear period by ...

Non-structural Measures in Urban Flood Management