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Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City

Published: 
July 2, 2021
Climate-driven changes in coastal flood risk have enormous consequences for coastal cities. These risks intersect with unequal patterns of environmental hazards exacerbating differential vulnerability of climate related flooding. This study analyzes differential vulnerability of coastal flooding in...Read more
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United States

After the Storm: The Importance of Acknowledging Environmental Justice in Sustainable Development and Disaster Preparedness

Published: 
July 2, 2021
The past decade has brought on some of the worst cases of flooding due to natural disasters and the resulting leaching of some of the most hazardous environmental contaminants back into nearby, often low income, communities. Natural disasters are not “great equalizers” when it comes to recovery...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

Flooding Hazard and Vulnerability. An Interdisciplinary Experimental Approach for the Study of the 2016 West Virginia Floods

Published: 
July 9, 2021
The hydrosocial (HS) and social-hydro (SH) frameworks each attempt to understand the complexity of water and society, but they have emerged from historically disparate fields with distinctly different goals as well as methodological and epistemological standpoints. This paper encapsulates the...Read more
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United States

Tuul River Basin Report Card

Published: 
July 16, 2021
The Tuul River Basin Report Card, the first of its kind in Mongolia, assesses the basin's health through social, environmental and economic values that can be tracked over time in response to management actions and/or external pressures. Although much research has been conducted on the water...Read more
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Mongolia

Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management: A Green Guide

Published: 
July 16, 2021
Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management: A Green Guide introduces an integrated framework for flood management, drawing on policy, green infrastructure and conventional engineering to help communities adapt and better manage growing flood risk. World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in partnership with the U...Read more
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Global

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