Understanding flood risk in urban environments: spatial analysis of building vulnerability and hazard areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area

PP Santos, S Pereira, JL Zêzere, E Reis, SC Oliveira… - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Climate change has brought about new risks while exacerbating existing ones, with floods
now accounting for about 45% of global disasters. This trend indicates that the exposure to …

Characterizing the level of urban Flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework, the case of Adama city, Ethiopia

BM Leta, D Adugna - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study characterizes the flood vulnerability of Adama City, Ethiopia, where the city faces
high flood vulnerability due to its unplanned urbanization in low-lying floodplain areas …

Occurrence, impacts, and future challenges of disaster risk in Panama

A Quesada-Román, J Rivera-Solís… - … and Management of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Panama is located in the southernmost portion of Central America, and due to its isthmic
location, it is primarily affected by hydrometeorological disasters. Given the limited local …

On dialogue about earth processes and sustainable environment in a changing world: a tribute to the legacy of the landscape traveller Augusto Pérez-Alberti

A Gomes, H García, A Gómez-Pazo… - Environmental Earth …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the external and internal geodynamical processes shaping the Earth is
challenging. Physical, chemical, and biological processes form the ground surface over …

Flood Risk Assessment in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

PP Santos, M Xofi, JC Domingues… - Multi-risk Interactions …, 2023 - Springer
Flood processes are one of the most challenging to risk assessment and management. In
many situations, peak flows are generated kilometers away from the places where …