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Giuliano Di Baldassarre

Giuliano Di Baldassarre

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
19067
World Ranking
1344
National Ranking
22

Overview

Giuliano Di Baldassarre is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed within their body of work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Disaster Management and Resilience, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Water Governance and Infrastructure.

Giuliano Di Baldassarre has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with selected recent papers including:

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies, 2020, Water Security
  • Don't blame the rain: Social power and the 2015-2017 drought in Cape Town, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply, 2021, Hydrological Processes

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers including Elena Mondino, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Johanna Mård, Maria Rusca, and Elena Ridolfi. Their contributions appear regularly in journals such as Hydrological Sciences Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Environmental Research Letters, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • Uncertainty in river discharge observations: a quantitative analysis

    G. Di Baldassarre;A. Montanari

  • Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions

    G. Di Baldassarre;A. Viglione;G. Carr;L. Kuil

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Debates—Perspectives on socio-hydrology: Capturing feedbacks between physical and social processes

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Alberto Viglione;Gemma Carr;Linda Kuil

  • Flood fatalities in Africa: From diagnosis to mitigation

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Alberto Montanari;Harry Lins;Demetris Koutsoyiannis

  • Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

    Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

  • Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Niko Wanders;Amir AghaKouchak;Linda Kuil

  • Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Murugesu Sivapalan;Maria Rusca;Christophe Cudennec

  • Insights from socio-hydrology modelling on dealing with flood risk – Roles of collective memory, risk-taking attitude and trust

    Alberto Viglione;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Luigia Brandimarte;Linda Kuil

  • Flood-plain mapping: a critical discussion of deterministic and probabilistic approaches

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates;Jim E. Freer

  • Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Amir AghaKouchak;Ali Mirchi;Kaveh Madani;Kaveh Madani;Giuliano Di Baldassarre

  • Towards understanding the dynamic behaviour of floodplains as human-water systems

    G. Di Baldassarre;M. Kooy;J. S. Kemerink;L. Brandimarte

  • Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

    Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

    Philip J. Ward;Marleen C. de Ruiter;Johanna Mård;Kai Schröter

  • An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope

    M. Durand;C. J. Gleason;P. A. Garambois;D. Bjerklie

  • Model selection techniques for the frequency analysis of hydrological extremes

    Francesco Laio;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Alberto Montanari

  • A technique for the calibration of hydraulic models using uncertain satellite observations of flood extent

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Guy Schumann;Paul D. Bates

  • Detailed data is welcome, but with a pinch of salt: Accuracy, precision, and uncertainty in flood inundation modeling

    F. Dottori;G. Di Baldassarre;E. Todini

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Anne F. Van Loon
Anne F. Van Loon Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Dimitri Solomatine
Dimitri Solomatine IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Heidi Kreibich
Heidi Kreibich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Guy Schumann
Guy Schumann University of Bristol
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua

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