• Refine Query
  • Source
  • Publication year
  • to
  • Language
  • 573
  • 187
  • 168
  • 73
  • 71
  • 50
  • 43
  • 30
  • 8
  • 7
  • 5
  • 5
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • Tagged with
  • 1456
  • 206
  • 196
  • 186
  • 180
  • 162
  • 161
  • 138
  • 121
  • 116
  • 113
  • 108
  • 101
  • 97
  • 95
  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
391

ANALYZING AND CATEGORIZING FLOOD DISASTER-RELATED TWEETS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE / 危機対応を目的とした洪水災害関連ツイートの分析と分類

Shi, Yongxue 25 March 2019 (has links)
付記する学位プログラム名: グローバル生存学大学院連携プログラム / 京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第21735号 / 工博第4552号 / 新制||工||1710(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科社会基盤工学専攻 / (主査)教授 堀 智晴, 教授 寶 馨, 准教授 佐山 敬洋, 教授 立川 康人 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DGAM
392

Vulnerability and Policy Response: Unintended Consequences

Georgic, Will Cameron 25 October 2019 (has links)
No description available.
393

Repetition in a Biblical Narrative: Genesis 6-9

Aellen, Donald Charles 04 1900 (has links)
The objectives of this thesis are concerned with the peculiar feature of repetitions in the so-called 'Flood-Narrative', Genesis 6-9. The presence of these repetitions has provoked many arguments amongst twentieth century biblical critics as to their origin, their function and even their form. The first objective of the thesis is to review critically a wide spectrum of research done on the repetitive phenomenon, outline the resultant opinions and to weigh the merits or weaknesses of any particular methodology as it relates to how the function of repetitive features is to be understood. The first chapter presents this critical view and finds that up to now, most research done on the text has not been free of methodological bias, with the result that only those repetitions useful to an approach are dealt with, to the exclusion of other repetitive features. The second objective is to catalog and describe the repetitive features of the text in an objective manner, free from methodological or exegetical bias. Chapter II arranges and classifies the repetitions that are evident in Gen. 6-9 and comments on possible patterns or forms suggested by the repetitions. The last objective of the thesis is to look at the repetitions from some perspectives of modern narrative theory to find if this viewpoint can shed any light on the function of repetitive forms. The last chapter of the thesis concludes that explanatory devices from narrative theory which rely on pre-established criteria apart from the text itself, are as well too short-sighted to be useful in corning to grips with repetitive function. However, those approaches which stress certain subjective, exegetical endeavors, or which emphasize a reader's response are found to provide useful insights for the perception of repetitive function. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)
394

BEREDSKAP MOT ÖVERSVÄMNINGAR : En enkätstudie av svenska kommuners beredskap mot översvämningar som uppstår till följd av naturolyckor / Flood preparedness : A questionnaire study of Swedish municipalities preparedness againstfloods as a result of natural disasters

Wiström, Linda January 2023 (has links)
Research has shown that unless global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 45% by 2030 the global warming could rise with 1,5 °C and increase the risk of floods. This is due to an intensification of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the flood preparedness in Swedish municipalities to get a better understanding how flood management was performed in practice and what obstacles municipalities may face. In addition to this, the study also aimed to see if preparedness differed between municipalities based on geographical location, flood risk classification or population. The study was conducted as a questionnaire that was sent out to all 290 municipalities in Sweden. The result indicated that a majority (89%) of the municipalities that participated (142) took floods into account in their risk and vulnerability analysis. Actions against floods were mainly focused on preventive and technical methods as well as increased cooperation. This study could not prove any differences in the flood preparedness based on geographical location, flood risk classification or population. Factors that posed limitations in municipalities abilities to effectively manage floods were lack of resources, restrictions in allocation of responsibilities or property rights. Areas of improvement that were noticed were that actions against floods could focus more on the municipalities ability to recover and learn from a flood event, as well as improvements in bridging the gap between the private and public sector to obtain a more cohesive preparedness capacity.
395

Flood vulnerability analysis for inland medium-sized cities: Guang’an as an example

Liang, Ting January 2017 (has links)
Vulnerability studies look into the impact of hazard events on socio-ecological systems. Socio-ecological vulnerability is a very complex subject because it is not only a technical matter but also a social problem. Precise assessment of socio-ecological vulnerability can help people successfully reduce potential losses caused by disasters as well as provide decision support for decision makers to take different urban planning strategies in areas of different vulnerability levels when making development and construction.   In previous studies, the definition of vulnerability is vague, which leads to diverse vulnerability framework. Vulnerability assessment is hazard-specific, most vulnerability studies are centered on a certain hazard, such as floods. To evaluate vulnerability, previous literatures combined qualitative and quantitative methods, such as narrative interviews, uniform vulnerability level ranking systems, statistical methods, GIS methods, etc. GIS methods are especially widely used in vulnerability studies. However, because of the complexity and vagueness of vulnerability, previous studies did not reach a consensus, even on the framework. The most focuses of flood vulnerability researches at city level are put on big coastal cities, while small & medium inland cities which also suffer severe flood disasters are usually ignored. A flood vulnerability map with vulnerability level from high to low is usually created in previous flood vulnerability assessment studies. However, this kind of flood vulnerability map can only tell the general flood risk states, ignoring the inherent details, which may confuse decision makers.   Considering these problems, the objective of this research is to put forward a socio-ecological vulnerability assessment framework. As most previous researches suggested, the socio-ecological vulnerability is a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation. In this research, the vulnerability is classified into 27 situations. The exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation are grading into three levels respectively. Of course, more levels can be used, but a three-level system, including high, medium, and low, is sufficient enough to describe the state of a place. Each vulnerability situation is a combination of a state of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation. In this case, the vulnerability map makes it easier for decision makers to understand the inner structure of vulnerability level. This framework is applied to Guang’an, an inland medium-sized Chinese city which has suffered severe flood disasters. Flood is considered as the hazard. The assessment parts of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation involve different data sets and methodologies. By an overlay analysis of these assessment results, the flood vulnerability map is derived. According to different situations in the flood vulnerability map, different coping strategies are given. Finally, a flood vulnerability assessments tool based on python script and model builder in ArcGIS10.2 and a GIS app based on ArcGIS Engine 10.2 are created. This ArcGIS tool can be applied to other cities, making the vulnerability framework and methodologies proposed in this research be widely used. The GIS app is used to store some useful information of Guang’an and show the vulnerability results, which can be used directly by decision makers.
396

Simulating Spatial and Temporal Flood Risk Dynamics with a Coupled Agent-Based and Hydraulic Model

Michaelis, Tamara January 2019 (has links)
Floods are one of the most costly natural hazards worldwide, affecting millions of people every year. Flood risk management is of global concern, and a deeper understanding of dynamic flood risk development is needed. Currently,vulnerability and exposure are often assumed to be constant in quantitative flood risk assessments, which does not reflect patterns observed in real life. In fact, flood protection measures on individual and community level can induce changes in both vulnerability and exposure, as well as alter river and floodplain hydraulics. The human-flood system is complex, incorporating two-way interactions between both subsystems. To build up these dynamics from the bottom up with a focus on the role of the individual, an agent-based model was combined with a hydraulic model. It was shown that this coupled model is capable of replicating levee and adaptation effects which are commonly knownto occur in the context of river floods and flood protection measures. Moreover,the new modeling approach can explicitly simulate the spatial distribution of flood risk which allowed for an analysis of conflicting interests in urban and rural areas. Here, model outcomes suggest that a shift of flood risk from high-value urban to lower-value rural areas can reduce system-wide flood losses. However, decreasing flood awareness in the city will push population growth rates, and discontent in rural areas might nally induce a shift of higher floodrisk back to the urban area. In the end, one low-probability high-intensity event might cause a disastrous outcome.
397

The role of groundwater in the inundation of a river-connected floodplain : case study of the river Silverån in southeast Sweden

Bång, Stina January 2019 (has links)
Fluvial flooding has long been recognized as one of the most frequently occurring natural disasters worldwide, with consequences as large economic losses from damages on infrastructure and agriculture, as well as severe impacts on human health. A less known and explored type of flooding is groundwater flooding. A flood type that for instance can arise in river-connected floodplains when groundwater levels rise to the ground surface due to increased river stages in the watercourse. Although groundwater flooding in general is a poorly understood phenomenon, it has become more recognized since its inclusion in the European Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) in 2007. Sweden has however excluded pure groundwater flooding as a separate flood type in its interpretation of the directive, but recognizes groundwater as a component which together with soil water and river water can influence the appearance of a flood event. One of the difficulties regarding groundwater floods that occur in connection to a river is that they typically are hard to differentiate from inundations of fluvial or pluvial origin. It is however important to address the role of groundwater in the inundation of these settings, since traditional flood protection strategies like levees might be circumvented by flows through the subsurface. The aim of this study has been to investigate the role of groundwater in the flooding of a river-connected floodplain by setting up a groundwater model in the integrated hydrological modeling tool MIKE SHE and couple it to an existing MIKE 11 river model, developed by DHI. The study area is a floodplain located along the river Silverån, a tributary to the river Emån, located in the south eastern part of Sweden. By running the model using four different sub-scenarios, regarding initial groundwater level and amount of precipitation, flood extent and contribution of groundwater to the inundation, in relation to other flood sources, has been investigated for different river discharges. A scenario with artificial levees constructed along parts of the river was also examined as levees have been found to have little effect on groundwater floods. As the model provides a simplified and generalized representation of reality it possesses several uncertainties, and so does the results. In summary, the results are in line with what is stated in the Swedish interpretation of the European Floods directive. It has not been possible to demonstrate pure groundwater flooding, but the results suggest that an elevated groundwater level in the beginning of a flood event will increase the extent of the inundation and result in a larger contribution of groundwater to the total amount of flood water. This suggests that there, in some cases, might be a value in integrating groundwater processes in flood risk mapping. Something that is not included in the conventional hydraulic 1D and 2D models, which traditionally are used in flood mapping. As could be expected, the results indicate that groundwater only accounts for a minor part of the flood water added to the total floodplain, while the major sources are river water and surface runoff. A delimited floodplain section that was investigated more in detail, as an increased flow from groundwater to overland water was detected along it, did however show larger contributions from groundwater. This river reach was less vulnerable to fluvial flooding, which in total resulted in a less severe flood, but also enabled a larger amount of groundwater to seep up to the floodplain surface. These conditions did also result in that the river section experienced a worsened inundation at the sub-scenario of high precipitation and high initial groundwater level, as levees were constructed along the river. Most likely because a lot of surface runoff, otherwise able to drain to the river along this section, got trapped outside the levees since it was unable to drain both to the river and to the saturated ground. These results support the theory that levees have little impact on groundwater flooding and stresses the importance 0f surveying and understanding the governing processes in the inundation of a floodplain when planning which type of flood protection scheme to use. / Översvämning utmed vattendrag, så kallad fluvial översvämning, har länge varit känd som en av de vanligast förekommande naturkatastroftyperna världen över, med konsekvenser i form av stora ekonomiska förluster, skador på infrastruktur och jordbruk samt allvarlig påverkan på människors hälsa. En mindre känd och utforskad översvämningstyp är grundvattenöversvämning. En typ av översvämning som kan uppstå i svämplanet längs ett vattendrag då grundvattennivån går upp i markytan till följd av förhöjda nivåer i vattendraget. Trots att grundvattenöversvämning generellt sett är ett outforskat fenomen har det blivit mer uppmärksammat sedan det inkluderades i det europeiska översvämningsdirektivet (2007/60/EG) som antogs 2007. I Sverige har man dock valt att exkludera renodlade grundvattenöversvämningar ur sin tolkning av direktivet och sagt att sådana inte förekommer i Sverige. Istället ser man grundvattnet som en av delarna i ett samverkande system, där det tillsammans med markvatten och ytvatten kan ha påverkan då ett vattendrag översvämmas. En svårighet med grundvattenöversvämningar som inträffar i anslutning till vattendrag är att de kan vara svåra att skilja från översvämningar med fluvialt eller pluvialt ursprung. Det är dock viktigt att uppmärksamma grundvattnets roll i den här typen av översvämningar då traditionella åtgärder som sätts in mot översvämningar, såsom invallningar, kan kringgås av flöden genom marken. Syftet med den här studien har varit att undersöka grundvattnets roll vid en översvämning utmed ett vattendrag genom att konstruera en grundvattenmodell i det integrerade hydrologiska modellverktyget MIKE SHE och koppla denna till en befintlig MIKE 11 vattendragsmodell, utvecklad av DHI. Modellområdet som studerats är beläget längs Silverån, ett av biflödena till Emån i sydöstra Sverige. Genom att undersöka fyra olika delscenarion, avseende initial grundvattenyta och nederbördsmängd, har översvämningsutbredning samt grundvattnets bidrag till översvämningen utvärderats för olika vattenflöden. Ett scenario där invallningar konstruerats längs delar av vattendraget har också undersökts, eftersom invallningar visat sig ha begränsad effekt på grundvattenöversvämningar. Eftersom modellen utgör en förenklad och generaliserad representation av verkligheten har den flertalet osäkerheter, något som även gäller för modellresultaten. Sammanfattningsvis kan sägas att resultaten är i linje med den svenska tolkningen av det europeiska översvämningsdirektivet. Det har inte varit möjligt att påvisa renodlade grundvattenöversvämningar. Däremot pekar resultaten på att en förhöjd grundvattennivå under inledningen av ett översvämningstillfälle kommer att bidra till en ökad översvämningsutbredning, samt ett större bidrag av grundvatten till den totala mängden översvämningsvatten. Detta indikerar att det i vissa fall skulle kunna finnas en mening i att inkludera grundvattenprocesser vid översvämningskartering. Något som inte finns med i de konventionella hydrauliska 1D- och 2D-modeller som traditionellt används vid översvämningskarteringen. Som väntat visar resultaten på att grundvattnet står för en mycket liten del av det vatten som totalt översvämmar det undersökta svämplanet, och att de främsta källorna är vatten från vattendraget tillsammans med ytavrinning. Längs en avgränsad sträcka av svämplanet som undersöktes mer i detalj, då ett ökat flöde från grundvatten till vatten på markytan påträffades längs denna, återfanns dock ett större bidrag från grundvattnet. Denna del av svämplanet var mindre känsligt för fluvial översvämning, något som på det hela taget resulterade i en mindre allvarlig översvämning, men också tillät en större mängd grundvatten att tränga upp på markytan. Dessa förhållanden ledda också till att den aktuella delen av svämplanet kom att få en förvärrad översvämning då vallar konstruerades för delscenariot med hög nederbörd och initialt hög grundvattenyta. Detta till följd av att en stor mängd ytavrinning, som tidigare kunnat dräneras till den här delen av vattendraget, fastnade utanför vallarna istället för att avledas till vattendraget eller infiltrera den mättade marken. Dessa resultat kan sägas stödja teorin kring att invallningar har liten påverkan på grundvattenöversvämningar och visar på vikten av att undersöka och förstå styrande processer kring översvämningen av ett svämplan då åtgärder mot översvämning planeras.
398

Evaluation of GEV Over LP3 When Predicting Return Period Annual Exceedance For Santa Ana, San Gabriel and Urbanized Regions in California

de Paula Macedo, Maria Beatriz 01 February 2022 (has links) (PDF)
The objective of this present thesis was to determine whether GEV (Generalized Extreme Value) itself can be a more conservative distribution than LP3 (Log Pearson III) associated with other methods, such as the B17B weighting procedure with Single Grubbs-Beck (SGB) for low outliers, when determining the projected floods in a flood frequency analysis (FFA) for Santa Ana and San Gabriel regions and other urbanized stream gages present in California. In this work, USGS PeakFQ was utilized. From the results obtained, it was possible to state that GEV fitting results were directly affected by the length of the data. When the length of the record is short, it is not accurate to use a projection of 100-year return period, for example, to represent future projection. Comparing the LP3 and GEV CDFs, for the majority of the stream gages analyzed in this project, GEV proves to be the most conservative method, with smaller return periods.
399

Near Real-Time Flood Forecasts from Global Hydrologic Forecasting Models

Krewson, Corey Nicholas 01 April 2019 (has links)
This research assesses possible methods for extending the Streamflow Prediction Tool from a streamflow forecasting model to a flood extent forecasting model. This new flood extent forecasting model would allow valuable and easy to understand information be disseminated in a timely manner for flood preparation and flood response. The Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) method and AutoRoute method were considered for flood extent models but the HAND was the better option for its simple and quick computation as well as its viability on a global scale. Due to the importance of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in these flood extent models, an analysis was performed on the sensitivity and response of different DEMs with the HAND method. The HAND method with the differing DEMs was also analyzed using the Streamflow Prediction Tool for model boundary conditions against Sentinel-1 SAR generated flood extent images from August 24, 2017. The MERIT DEM performed the best in this analysis and is recommended for future research in creating a global forecasting flood extent model. The HAND method covered about 25% of the generated flood extent images and more complex flood extent models may need to be considered in areas where HAND underperforms. Finally, a proof of concept flood extent model was created and deployed as a web application for easy accessibility and distribution of flood information. Additional research to consider is flood impact based on affected population or an economic analysis, as well as optimizing model parameters for increased accuracy and performance. Additional research is also needed for HAND DEM analysis in other parts of the world.
400

Heterogeneity in flood risk valuation and estimation from county to continental scales

Pollack, Adam Brandon 20 September 2023 (has links)
Flood risk management in the U.S. has contributed to overdevelopment in at-risk areas, increases in flood losses over time, significant deficits in federal emergency programs, and inequitable outcomes to households and communities. Addressing these issues in a cost-effective and socially equitable manner relies on the ability of policy analysts to identify and understand complex interactions that characterize coupled natural-human systems, and tools for accurate estimates of the risks that arise from these interactions. This dissertation addresses this need by developing and investigating a flood risk analysis system that integrates data on property locations, assessments and transactions, high resolution flood hazard models, and flood risk policy and impacts across the coterminous United States. We focus on the degree to which markets accurately value their exposure to flooding and its impacts, and the accuracy of procedures and tools to estimate flood losses. In the first chapter, we identify heterogeneous valuation of storm risk in the Florida Keys that depends on the presence of structural defense and proximity to damaged homes after Hurricane Irma. This result suggests that stranded assets, properties with increasing vulnerability to storms but unable to rebuild structures and recover wealth, and overvalued assets at risk, which raise disaster costs, can occur simultaneously. This runs counter to the common framing of competing drivers of observed market valuation. In the second, we show that conventional methods employed in flood loss assessments to achieve large spatial scales introduce large aggregation bias by sacrificing spatial resolution in inputs. This investigation adds important context to published risk assessments and highlights opportunities to improve flood loss estimation uncertainty quantification which can support more cost effective and equitable management. In the final chapter, we conduct a nationwide study to contrast the predictive accuracy of predominantly used U.S. agency flood damage prediction models and empirical alternatives using data on 846 K observed flood losses to single-family homes from 446 flood events. We find that U.S. agency models mischaracterize the relationships of losses at the lowest low and high inundation depths, for high-valued structures, and structures with basements. Evaluated alternatives improve mean accuracy on these dimensions. In extrapolation to 72.4 M single-family homes in the U.S., these differences translate into markedly different predictions of U.S.-wide flood damages to single-family homes. The results from this dissertation provide an improved empirical foundation for flood risk management that relies on the valuation and estimation of flood risk from county to continental scales.

Page generated in 1.0007 seconds