A pesar de que la Comunidad de Madrid no tenga un riesgo elevado de inundación, sí ha tenido en el pasado cierta recurrencia y actualmente mantiene eventos ocasionales que generan elevados costes. Se realiza un exhaustivo inventario a partir de fuentes documentales, recopilando información de 138 inundaciones entre 1836 y 2021. Con ella se explica ...
The objective of this research is to analyze river overflow risk management in the face of the El Niño phenomenon. Flood risk management due to the effect of river overflows is an approach characterized by a combination of a set of structural and non-structural strategies that make it possible to manage floods and provide conditions for the develop...
In the Tabasco Mexican State there were severe flows due to abundant rain during the COVID-19; these two phenomena imply closing schools during several weeks, so classes should be by internet and tv, meaning new demands and workloads for teachers. So, the objective of the study is to identify the degree of affectation during the floods and the COVI...
This research project was framed in the evaluation of the storm sewage network located on El Oro Street and Manta Avenue in the city of Montecristi, allowing the analysis of said system and each of its components; hydraulic, as well as hydrological, based on data issued by the corresponding departments assigned to the Municipal Gad of the Montecris...
This article presents an approach on the perceptions of students and teachers of the Educational Institution of Sincelejito-INESI, an educational center located in the region of La Mojana, Ayapel-Córdoba, Colombia. For its development, a methodology was implemented with a qualitative approach, directed through the guidelines of the phenomenological...
This study aims to discuss the relationship between design proposals and the communication of specific meanings through objects designed for safety. To this end, a project called DIN is described, where four different models were developed for the fairing of the same equipment, an individual notification device, which fulfills the function of alert...
This editorial provides a sociological examination of the October 2024 floods in Spain's Valencian Community, analyzing both their differential impact across social groups and institutional responses to risk management. Moving beyond conventional interpretations of natural disasters, we argue that these events must be understood as social phenomena...
The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is the main urban conglomerate in Argentina. Their rapid growth caused the intensification of land use and the modification of water courses and, because investments in infrastructure did not accompany these transformations, they became recipients of industrial and domestic effluents (Cirelli and Ojeda 2008, Öberg...
La Vuelta del Paraguayo is a riverside neighborhood of the city of Santa Fe that is located in the alluvial valley of the Paraná River and has the peculiarity that it suffers from cyclical flooding. In this article we are interested in investigating what are the strategies of construction of habitability in their own houses to be able to live with ...
This article addresses the history of a resident population of bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in an isolated stagnant body of water in subtropical Australia. From 1996 to 2013, six bull sharks were landlocked in a golf course lake near Brisbane. The adjacent Logan and Albert rivers trapped sharks due to major floodings. When floodwaters receded,...
