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This paper presents a new criterion to assess potential intangible damage such as human lives when roads are exposed to flooding due to dams or ponds failure in a context of dams’ safety guidelines.
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This report maps both the national framework for disaster recovery and the framework applicable in one autonomous community: the Valencian Community.
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This paper assesses the feasibility and robustness of an index-based insurance scheme against hydrological droughts under climate change.
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This paper presents a community-centred framework named ‘site-specific early warning system’ (SS-EWS) to co-design and co-evaluate with communities an impact-based warnings (IBEWS) for vulnerable locations within high-risk areas.
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This report analyses experiences of five EU countries - Croatia, Finland, Germany, Italy and Spain, from the beginning of the pandemic up until COVID-19 vaccines became available at the end of 2020.
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This study presents the LIFE-MyBuildingisGreen project, its objectives, and expected results. The project focuses on public buildings dedicated to education and social services existing in all cities and towns in Europe.
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The study examines the responsibility of human factors, such as urban development, in the occurrence of torrential rainfall disasters in the region of Murcia. It assesses exposure and vulnerability through rainfall observations and municipal statistics.
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This study aims to present the most promising technologies in the field of firefight and control of wildfires.

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