Potential flood risk due to urbanization expansion in arid environments, Saudi Arabia

Urbanization of watersheds is known to increase the flood risk potentials. Since 1970, eastern Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, underwent rapid urbanization due to the high rate of population growth and the booming economy, which attracts hundreds of thousands of expatriates. Such urbanizations change drastica...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 2020-10, Vol.104 (1), p.795-809
Hauptverfasser:	Bahrawi, Jarbou, Ewea, Hatem, Kamis, Ahmed, Elhag, Mohamed
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Algorithms Arid environments Arid zones Aridity Civil Engineering Data analysis Earth and Environmental Science Earth Sciences Environmental Management Environmental risk Expatriates Flood risk Floods Geophysics/Geodesy Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Hydrogeology Hydrologic data Hydrology Land cover Land use Meteorological data Natural Hazards Original Paper Population growth Rain Rainfall Remote sensing Risk Severe floods Soil Support vector machines Urbanization Watersheds
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