NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of ...
Cruz Coronas discuss escalating risks of urban flooding in Europe, highlighting the limitations of traditional flood hazard maps ...
Wired: Sarah Diamond, the George B. Mayer Chair in Urban and Environmental Studies, explained how understanding the effects of urbanization on surrounding wildlife could help in conservation.
Big Cities Disrupt the Atmosphere, Often Generating More Rainfall, But Can Also Have a Drying Effect
The world’s largest urban areas have an outsized influence on regional weather and climate patterns, often creating “wet islands,” with more rainfall over cities and adjacent downwind areas, according ...
Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the ...
The Government of Sri Lanka has launched an ambitious program of economic and physical regeneration for Metropolitan Colombo. Image © Joe Qian/World Bank South Asia ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the ...
Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States. Washington, DC: The National ...
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