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Earth Volume 2 Issue 4

Subject Areas: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
ISSN: 2673-4834
SJR: 14

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Mapping of the Flood Distribution in an Urban Environment: The Case of Palma (Mallorca, Spain) in the First Two Decades of the 21st Century

Rosselló-Geli, Joan; Grimalt-Gelabert, Miquel

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040056

The City of Palma de Mallorca has been historically affected by flood events, with the latest flood of great magnitude occurring in 1962. After decades without large flooding events, since the start of the 21st century, 28 floods have been identified within the city boundaries. As change in the...
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Urban Intelligence for Planetary Health

Lai, Yuan

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040057

The health of human-being and our planet are incessantly interlinked, and such links often exist in the context of cities. This article articulates urban intelligence as an essential capacity for cities to be more adaptive and responsive to face the risks in the context of climate change and...
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Analysis of Expected Climate Extreme Variability with Regional Climate Simulations over Napoli Capodichino Airport: A Contribution to a Climate Risk Assessment Framework

Bucchignani, Edoardo; Zollo, Alessandra Lucia; Montesarchio, Myriam

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040058

In recent years, the scientific community has paid particular attention to the analysis of extreme events, such as heat waves, droughts, and intense rain events that have caused loss of human life and significant economic damage. Climate-related extremes generally produce large impact on...
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Transformation of Water Wave Spectra into Time Series of Surface Elevation

Oleinik, Phelype Haron; Tavares, Gabriel Pereira; Machado, Bianca Neves; Isoldi, Liércio André

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040059

Spectral wave modelling is widely used to simulate large-scale wind–wave processes due to its low computation cost and relatively simpler formulation, in comparison to phase-resolving or hydrodynamic models. However, some applications require a time-domain representation of sea waves. This...
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Earthquake Reconnaissance Data Sources, a Literature Review

Contreras, Diana; Wilkinson, Sean; James, Philip

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040060

Earthquakes are one of the most catastrophic natural phenomena. After an earthquake, earthquake reconnaissance enables effective recovery by collecting data on building damage and other impacts. This paper aims to identify state-of-the-art data sources for building damage assessment and provide...
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Economic Complexity: A New Challenge for the Environment

Neagu, Olimpia

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040063

The present paper offers a view regarding the challenge induced in the environment by the productive structure of countries. Economic complexity, which links the productive structure of a country with its knowledge, labour, and sophistication, seems to raise new challenges for the...
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Increase of Agribusiness in the Brazilian Amazon: Development or Inequality?

Oliveira, Rosana Cavalcante de; de Souza e Silva, Rogério Diogne

2021 Earth

doi:10.3390/earth2040064

The growing global demand for soybean production combined with its increased market value could result in a new supercycle for this commodity. For Brazilian agribusiness, there has been an opportunity to increase exports, particularly in soybean production, in recent years, and therefore, soybean...

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