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Large-scale flood risk assessment in data-scarce areas: an application to Central Asia
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Gianbattista Bussi
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Simona Denaro
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Gabriele Coccia
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Paolo Bazzurro
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia (IUSS), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Mario Martina
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia (IUSS), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Ettore Fagà
Risk Engineering + Development (RED), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Carlos Avelar
Evaluación de Riesgos Naturales (ERN), 01050 Mexico City, Mexico
Mario Ordaz
Evaluación de Riesgos Naturales (ERN), 01050 Mexico City, Mexico
Benjamin Huerta
Evaluación de Riesgos Naturales (ERN), 01050 Mexico City, Mexico
Osvaldo Garay
Evaluación de Riesgos Naturales (ERN), 01050 Mexico City, Mexico
Zhanar Raimbekova
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, A15E3C7, Al-Farabi Ave., 71/19, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov
Institute of Seismology of the National Academy of the Sciences Kyrgyz Republic, 720060 Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Sitora Mirzokhonova
Institute of Water Problems, Hydropower and Ecology of the National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, 734042 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Tajik National University, 734042 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Vakhitkhan Ismailov
Institute of Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, 700128 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Vladimir Belikov
Independent consultant, 744000, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
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A fully probabilistic flood risk assessment was carried out for five Central Asian countries to support regional and national risk financing and insurance applications. The paper presents the first high-resolution regional-scale transboundary flood risk assessment study in the area aiming to provide tools for decision-making.
A fully probabilistic flood risk assessment was carried out for five Central Asian countries to...
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