S
Salvador Gil-Guirado
Researcher at University of Murcia
Publications - 28
Citations - 338
Salvador Gil-Guirado is an academic researcher from University of Murcia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flood myth & Vulnerability. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 21 publications receiving 211 citations. Previous affiliations of Salvador Gil-Guirado include University of Alicante.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Housing bubbles and the increase of flood exposure. Failures in flood risk management on the Spanish south-eastern coast (1975–2013)
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of urban growth in flood-prone areas and the role played by government institutions in mitigating the increase in exposure was evaluated using the cadastral information and the hydrological modelling data for the return periods of 10, 50, 100 and 500 years.
Journal ArticleDOI
Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)
Mariano Barriendos,Salvador Gil-Guirado,David Pino,Jordi Tuset,Alfredo Pérez-Morales,Armando Alberola,Joan Costa,Josep Carles Balasch,Xavier Castelltort,Jordi Mazon,Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for reconstructing historical floods based on cross-referencing documentary sources is proposed, together with additional archival work, which has allowed to increase the number of flood series for the Spanish Mediterranean coast by 17% and has generated a surprising increase of 233% in the count of flood cases detected.
Journal ArticleDOI
How to Close the Gap of Desalinated Seawater for Agricultural Irrigation? Confronting Attitudes between Managers and Farmers in Alicante and Murcia (Spain)
Sandra Ricart,Rubén A. Villar-Navascués,Salvador Gil-Guirado,Antonio M. Rico-Amorós,Ana Arahuetes +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on understanding how desalination plant managers and irrigation communities interact to address water scarcity, focusing on the security/guarantee of supply and water quality parameters.
Journal ArticleDOI
Can we learn from the past? Four hundred years of changes in adaptation to floods and droughts. Measuring the vulnerability in two Hispanic cities
TL;DR: The Perceptual Index for Changes in Climate Risk (PICCR) as mentioned in this paper is an index that groups several social indicators into four factors that summarize the evolution of both vulnerability and adaptation to floods and droughts.
Journal ArticleDOI
Who can you trust? Implications of institutional vulnerability in flood exposure along the Spanish Mediterranean coast
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate how different local governments have influenced on urban growth in flood-prone areas through a deficient spatial planning, also to evaluate its possible relation with sociodemographic factors.