Public health risks from urban flooding are a global concern. Contaminated floodwater may expose residents living in cities as they are in direct contact with the water. However, the recent literature does not provide much information about this issue, especially for developing countries. In this paper, the health risk due to a flood event occurred in Can Tho City (Mekong Delta, Vietnam) on 7 O...

Floods are one of the major hazards worldwide. They are the source of huge risks in rural and urban areas, resulting in severe impacts on the civil society, industry and the economy. The Elbe River has suffered from many severe floods during recent decades. In this study, the zones flooded during 2011 were analyzed using TerraSAR-X images and a digital elevation model for the area in order to i...

In the context of climate change and increasing urbanization, Small Island Developing States are increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. response urbanization in at risk areas, concept territorial resilience has potential as an approach urban flood issues. The objective this research is develop a spatial decision support tool based on collaborative assessment method resilience. proposed m...

Daily flow records, rainfall data and tropical cyclone maps during 19701998 are used to document the impact of tropical cyclones (TCs) on floods in the Rewa River system, Viti Levu, Fiji. Floods are large, brief, isolated events caused by TCs and non-TC tropical rainstorms. More floods are caused by tropical rainstorms than by TCs, but TC floods are larger. The log Pearson Type III distribution...

the growth of industries during the industrialization and after the industrial revolution has caused environmental problems all around the world; specifically in industrial countries. in spite of having high technology, industrial countries have not been able to solve the problem of environmental pollution. even meetings and conferences such as those held in stockholm and johannesburg have not ...