Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

[HTML][HTML] The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

PJ Ward, MC de Ruiter, J Mård, K Schröter, A Van Loon… - Water Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods
and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk …

Analysis of forest fire fatalities in southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Greece and Sardinia (Italy)

DM Molina-Terrén, G Xanthopoulos… - … journal of wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildfire fatalities remain a significant problem in Mediterranean Europe. Although there is a
strong inter-annual variability with regard to their number, repeated tragic accidents remind …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB

K Papagiannaki, O Petrucci, M Diakakis, V Kotroni… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
This data paper describes the multinational Database of Flood Fatalities from the Euro-
Mediterranean region FFEM-DB that hosts data of 2,875 flood fatalities from 12 territories …

Assessing future changes in the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides at a regional scale

SL Gariano, G Rianna, O Petrucci, F Guzzetti - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
According to the fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an increase
in the frequency and the intensity of extreme rainfall is expected in the Mediterranean area …

Relating drought indices to impacts reported in newspaper articles

P O'Connor, C Murphy… - International …, 2023 - mural.maynoothuniversity.ie
Relating drought indicators and real-world impacts is fundamental for understanding and
addressing drought vulnerability. We link drought indices and impacts from newspapers …

Comparing flood mortality in Portugal and Greece (Western and eastern Mediterranean)

S Pereira, M Diakakis, G Deligiannakis… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
For the first time flood mortality is analysed and compared between a Western (Portugal)
and an Eastern Mediterranean country (Greece). Flood fatalities are examined and …

Flash flood occurrence and relation to the rainfall hazard in a highly urbanized area

K Papagiannaki, K Lagouvardos… - Natural Hazards and …, 2015 - nhess.copernicus.org
The paper examines the flash flood events that occurred over a decade in the Attica
prefecture, the most urbanized region of Greece, with the aim of identifying triggering rainfall …

A database of high-impact weather events in Greece: a descriptive impact analysis for the period 2001–2011

K Papagiannaki, K Lagouvardos… - Natural Hazards and …, 2013 - nhess.copernicus.org
This paper introduces the development of a database of high-impact weather events that
occurred in Greece since 2001. The selected events are related to the occurrence of floods …

Exploring drought‐to‐flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review

MH Barendrecht, A Matanó, H Mendoza… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study synthesizes the current understanding of the hydrological, impact, and adaptation
processes underlying drought‐to‐flood events (ie, consecutive drought and flood events) …