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10 sie 2021 · Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this...
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22 lip 2023 · We present a new open source dataset FLODIS that links estimates of flood-induced human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages to flooded areas observed through remote sensing.
27 lut 2024 · Some very deadly floods occurred in the form of coastal flood events in Bangladesh (1991) and Myanmar (2008), and catastrophic river floods in China (1975). Particularly due to these large events, it is found that most flood fatalities (around 85%) occurred in Asia.
4 paź 2023 · In communities impacted by flood, up to 0.10% of all cause deaths, 0.18% of cardiovascular deaths, and 0.41% of respiratory deaths were attributed to floods.
River floods caused about 7 million fatalities in the twen-tieth century1, and their direct global average annual loss (AAL) is estimated at US$ 104 billion (2015) (ref.2). Exposure to floods...
Between 1980 and 2009 there were an estimated 539,811 deaths (range 510,941 -568,584) and 361,974 injuries attributed to floods; a total of nearly 2.8 billion people were affected by floods during this timeframe. The primary cause of flood-related mortality was drowning.
mortality after exposure to floods, with effects persisting for 50-60 days. Specifically, they found cumulative risk increases of 2.1% (95% confidence interval 0.6% to 3.6%) for all cause mortality, 2.6% (0.5% to 4.7%) for cardiovascular mortality, and 4.9% (0.8% to 9.2%) for respiratory mortality. Flood associated effects included increases in ...
