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Human impact on floods and flood disasters on the Yangtze River
Hongfu Yin,Changan Li +1 more
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Wang et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out that the deteriorating flood situation is the result of inappropriate human intervention in the natural environment and suggested that the appropriate strategy should change from "keeping the flood away" to "giving the flood way".About:
This article is published in Geomorphology.The article was published on 2001-11-15. It has received 305 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flood stage & Floodplain.read more
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Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities
TL;DR: It is argued that when researchers focus on only the most scientifically sound research--studies that use prospective designs or include multivariate analyses of predictor and outcome measures--relatively clear conclusions about the psychological parameters of disasters emerge, and that social relationships can improve after disasters, especially within the immediate family.
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Global potential soil erosion with reference to land use and climate changes
TL;DR: In this paper, a GIS-based RUSLE model is employed to study the global soil erosion potential for viewing the present situation, analysing changes over the past century, and projecting future trends with reference to global changes in land use and climate.
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Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China
Weihua Xu,Yi Xiao,Jingjing Zhang,Wu Yang,Lu Zhang,Vanessa Hull,Zhi Wang,Hua Zheng,Jianguo Liu,Stephen Polasky,Ling Jiang,Yang Xiao,Xuewei Shi,Enming Rao,Fei Lu,Xiaoke Wang,Gretchen C. Daily,Zhiyun Ouyang +17 more
TL;DR: It is found that China’s nature reserves serve moderately well for mammals and birds, but not for other major taxa, nor for these key regulating ecosystem services, and a new category of PAs globally is proposed, for sustaining the provision of ecosystems services and achieving sustainable development goals.
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Flooding, vulnerability and coping strategies: local responses to a global threat
TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent theoretical and applied research on vulnerability and adaptive capacity of households and communities in flood-prone areas is presented, highlighting the growing tendency for interventions to prioritize action at the local scale and suggesting directions for further research to deepen understanding of actual and potential coping strategies.
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Urban flood hazard zoning in Tucumán Province, Argentina, using GIS and multicriteria decision analysis
D.S. Fernández,M.A. Lutz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a GIS-aided urban flood hazard zoning of the two cities applying multicriteria decision analysis and evaluated it by means of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.