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While gray infrastructure can be effective in preventing flooding-related damage [27] and can be economically valuable, [28] some models suggest that gray infrastructure may become less effective at preventing flood-related impacts in urban areas in the future as climate change causes flooding intensity and frequency to increase.
Existing health inequalities are likely to impact individuals' and communities’ vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Health inequalities overlap with other inequalities such as spatial and socio-ecoonomic disparities. For example, the most deprived communities often have less access to green spaces in their neighbourhoods.
In nearby Livingston, the Canoe Brook overflowed its banks, and flooding damaged several police, fire department, and public works vehicles. One fire department SUV was swept away while rescuing a person in a trapped car. [37] Around 500 rescues occurred in Manville, Somerset County, and 100 houses were estimated to be uninhabitable.
Flooding could impact food security for more than 5.6 million people across multiple African nations, a new study has found. While these impacts are usually negative, the researchers also ...
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Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...
A 2012 analysis of flood infrastructure, hazards and deficiencies in Merced County estimated that Miles Creek had a channel capacity to carry about 1,000 cubic feet per second. At that time, the ...
Flood modelling is a tool used to model flood hazard and the effects on humans and the physical environment. [65] Flood modelling takes into consideration how flood hazards, external and internal processes and factors, and the main drivers of floods interact with each other.