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• Select Human cost of floods reveals a world divided by planning and resources

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  Human cost of floods reveals a world divided by planning and resources

  Author:Rob GregoryFrom:The Architectural Review (Vol. 229, Issue 1368)

  Feb. 2011968 words Article 1630LIn mid January two large urban populations were struck by devastating floods. Featured side by side in the world's media, residents of Queensland, Australia, were unified in disaster with people from the Brazilian city...
• Select Simplified assessment of the regional economic impacts of interruption to transport corridors with application to the 2011 Queensland floods

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  Simplified assessment of the regional economic impacts of interruption to transport corridors with application to the 2011 Queensland floods

  Authors:John Rolfe, Susan Kinnear, and Rebecca GowenFrom:Australasian Journal of Regional Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20136,355 words Article 1580LThe focus of this study was on the economic costs of closures to transport corridors from flood waters at Rockhampton in January 2011. Two approaches have been used to provide for a simplified assessment of the economic...
• Select Status and Social Capital: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Investigation of Flood Survivors in South Punjab, Pakistan.

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  Status and Social Capital: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Investigation of Flood Survivors in South Punjab, Pakistan.

  Authors:Muhammad Siddique Akbar, Muhammad Rizwan Safdar, Farhan Navid Yousaf, and Daniel P. AldrichFrom:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20229,747 words Article 1450LA growing body of evidence underscores that social capital mitigates the impact of natural hazards such as floods. But we know less about the distribution of social ties in developing countries regularly hit by shocks....
• Select Flash flood mitigation modeling--case study Small Carpathians

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  Flash flood mitigation modeling--case study Small Carpathians

  Authors:Adam Janik and Andrej SolteszFrom:Pollack Periodica: An International Journal for Engineering and Information Sciences (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 1, 20174,909 words Case study 1350LAbstract: Flash floods are becoming a phenomenon that troubles people more and more often in many Slovak under-mountain regions and society needs to deal with these extreme natural events. This article is showing an...
• Select Early Detection of Baby-Rain-Cell Aloft in a Severe Storm and Risk Projection for Urban Flash Flood

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  Early Detection of Baby-Rain-Cell Aloft in a Severe Storm and Risk Projection for Urban Flash Flood

  Authors:Eiichi Nakakita, Hiroto Sato, Ryuta Nishiwaki, Hiroyuki Yamabe, and Kosei YamaguchiFrom:Advances in Meteorology (Vol. 2017) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20177,953 words Report 1450LIn July 2008, five people were killed by a tragic flash flood caused by a local torrential heavy rainfall in a short time in Toga River. From this tragic accident, we realized that a system which can detect hazardous...
• Select Performance of models for flash flood warning and hazard assessment: The 2015 Kali Gandaki landslide Dam Breach in Nepal

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  Performance of models for flash flood warning and hazard assessment: The 2015 Kali Gandaki landslide Dam Breach in Nepal

  Authors:Jeremy D. Bricker, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Basanta Raj Adhikari, Shuji Moriguchi, Volker Roeber, and Sanjay GiriFrom:Mountain Research and Development (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20176,269 words Report 1520LThe 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake and its aftershocks weakened mountain slopes in Nepal. Co- and postseismic landsliding and the formation of landslide-dammed lakes along steeply dissected valleys were...
• Select Iowa libraries bear brunt of Midwest floods

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  Iowa libraries bear brunt of Midwest floods

  From:American Libraries (Vol. 39, Issue 7)

  Aug. 20081,093 words Article 1580LThe flash flooding in June and early July of river towns in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin claimed the lives of more than a dozen people, decimated neighborhoods and farmland, and caused damage...
• Select Integrated high-resolution dataset of high-intensity European and Mediterranean flash floods

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  Integrated high-resolution dataset of high-intensity European and Mediterranean flash floods

  Authors:William Amponsah, Pierre-Alain Ayral, Brice Boudevillain, Christophe Bouvier, Isabelle Braud, Pascal Brunet, et al.From:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 5, 2018324 words Author abstract, Bri...

  This paper describes an integrated, high-resolution dataset of hydro-meteorological variables (rainfall and discharge) concerning a number of high-intensity flash floods that occurred in Europe and in the...

• Select Flood protection in the Netherlands

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  Flood protection in the Netherlands

  From:Operations Research (Vol. 60, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  November-December 2012 Brief article 1360L
• Select Step up and make it happen: during the Leadership Training Conference in April, several of you asked me how I came up with my theme for this next year. A bit concerned that "all the good ones had already been taken," I began thinking about it more than a year ago

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  Step up and make it happen: during the Leadership Training Conference in April, several of you asked me how I came up with my theme for this next year. A bit concerned that "all the good ones had already been taken," I began thinking about it more than a year ago

  Author:Debora Kucha-CraigFrom:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 64, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 2010409 words Column, Conference n... 1430LI reflected on the traits I admire most in leaders, the issues that trouble me the most, and the concerns I have for our industry moving forward. The result, as you know, is "Step Up." Since announcing it, I've...
• Select 100 years ago

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  100 years ago

  From:Nature (Vol. 463, Issue 7282) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 11, 2010129 words Brief article 1290LIt is now an evident fact that Paris has recently suffered the ravages of an inundation greater and more severe than any which have visited the city within the last two and a half centuries. A gauge at the bridge of La...
• Select Water

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  Water

  Author:Julie ClarkeFrom:Hecate (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20111,307 words Essay, Short story 1250LThe day of the rain, thunderous sounds and lighting flash, cascading water, a literal deluge clogged the pipes, ran down the streets, filled the septic tanks to overflowing, and floated rubbish bins and anything else...
• Select Desiccation cracks act as natural seed traps in flood-meadow systems

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  Desiccation cracks act as natural seed traps in flood-meadow systems

  Authors:Sandra Burmeier, R. Lutz Eckstein, Annette Otte, and Tobias W. DonathFrom:Plant and Soil (Vol. 333, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20107,611 words Author abstract 1490LDesiccation cracks are a natural phenomenon of clay-rich soils that form via soil shrinkage during dry conditions. Our aim was to test the seed trapping potential of such cracks and assess its impact on seed bank...
• Select Home range and dispersal of juvenile Florida Burrowing Owls

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  Home range and dispersal of juvenile Florida Burrowing Owls

  Authors:Robert J. Mrykalo, Melissa M. Grigione, and Ronald J. SarnoFrom:The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (Vol. 119, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20072,478 words Article 1440LWe present the first use of necklace radio transmitters to document the home range and dispersal of juvenile Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia floridana) during the breeding and post-breeding period in rural Florida....
• Select Chicago flood tests GSA contingency plans

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  Chicago flood tests GSA contingency plans

  Author:S.A. MasudFrom:Government Computer News (Vol. 11, Issue 11)

  May 25, 1992329 words Brief article When April's flooding of the Chicago River crippled many corporate computers, General Services Administration officials in Chicago wondered what all the fuss was about. By rerouting network traffic through another site,...
• Select Outcry Greets Possible Sale of Pollock Painting to Pay for U. of Iowa's Flood Repairs

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  Outcry Greets Possible Sale of Pollock Painting to Pay for U. of Iowa's Flood Repairs

  Author:Kathryn MastersonFrom:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 55, Issue 2)

  Sept. 5, 2008887 words Article 1480LByline: KATHRYN MASTERSON Jackson Pollock's "Mural," the wall-length jewel of the University of Iowa's art collection, sits safely in a secure, climate-controlled location in Chicago after being saved from the...
• Select An outbreak of hepatitis A virus among children in a flood rescue camp: A post-disaster catastrophe

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  An outbreak of hepatitis A virus among children in a flood rescue camp: A post-disaster catastrophe

  Authors:S. Pal, D. Juyal, M. Sharma, S. Kotian, V. Negi, and N. SharmaFrom:Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology (Vol. 34, Issue 2)

  April-June 20162,529 words Article 1610LByline: S. Pal, D. Juyal, M. Sharma, S. Kotian, V. Negi, N. Sharma We report an outbreak of acute viral hepatitis among children in a flood rescue camp at Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand State, India. In May...
• Select Wade here for assistance

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  Wade here for assistance

  From:American Libraries (Vol. 35, Issue 6)

  June-July 200468 words Brief article WADE HERE FOR ASSISTANCE. Workers clean up the main reading room of the St. Louis County Headquarters Library after an underground pipe burst March 22 and shot thousands of gallons of pressurized, muddy water through a...
• Select Exogenous catechin increases antioxidant enzyme activity and promotes flooding tolerance in tomato (Solatium lycopersicum L.)

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  Exogenous catechin increases antioxidant enzyme activity and promotes flooding tolerance in tomato (Solatium lycopersicum L.)

  Authors:Jinn-Chin Yiu, Menq-Jiau Tseng, and Chung-Wei LiuFrom:Plant and Soil (Vol. 344, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20117,220 words Author abstract 1460LWe studied the extent to which catechin applied as a soil drench modifies the effects of soil waterlogging on plant growth, the functioning of the free radical scavenging system and on oxidative stress levels....
• Select Public Risk Perception Attitude and Information-Seeking Efficacy on Floods: A Formative Study for Disaster Preparation Campaigns and Policies.

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  Public Risk Perception Attitude and Information-Seeking Efficacy on Floods: A Formative Study for Disaster Preparation Campaigns and Policies.

  Authors:Do Kyun David Kim and T. Phillip MadisonFrom:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20206,795 words Report 1510LFloods are among the most frequent and devastating natural hazards and disasters in many southern states in the United States. This study examined the relationship and reciprocal predictability between two theoretical...