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Kaoru Takara

Kaoru Takara

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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4343
World Ranking
8330
National Ranking
255

Overview

Kaoru Takara is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ocean Engineering. Their research encompasses a range of topics including landslides and related hazards, hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, water-energy-food nexus studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, transboundary water resource management, and dam engineering and safety.

Among Kaoru Takara's recent publications are:

  • Urban flood numerical simulation: Research, methods and future perspectives, 2022, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Historical assessment and future sustainability challenges of Egyptian water resources management, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Comparison of gridded precipitation datasets for rainfall-runoff and inundation modeling in the Mekong River Basin, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Why apple orchards are shifting to the higher altitudes of the Himalayas?, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Numerical investigation on the evolution of landslide-induced river blocking using coupled DEM-CFD, 2021, Computers and Geotechnics

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Kyoji Sassa (12 collaborations)
  • Takahiro Sayama (9 collaborations)
  • Peter Bobrowsky (8 collaborations)
  • Khang Dang (4 collaborations)
  • Bahareh Kamranzad (4 collaborations)

Kaoru Takara has contributed multiple publications to a variety of venues. The most frequent journals include:

  • Journal of Disaster Research (4 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • Applied Energy (2 publications)
  • Landslides (2 publications)
  • Environmental Modelling & Software (1 publication)

In addition to journal papers, Takara has published six books with Springer International Publishing. All six are editions of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk from 2020, receiving a range of citations across the editions.

Best Publications

  • Flood inundation assessment for the Hanoi Central Area, Vietnam under historical and extreme rainfall conditions

    Pingping Luo;Dengrui Mu;Han Xue;Thanh Ngo-Duc

  • Assessment of global nitrogen pollution in rivers using an integrated biogeochemical modeling framework

    Bin He;Shinjiro Kanae;Taikan Oki;Yukiko Hirabayashi

  • Spatial and temporal trends in estimates of nutrient and suspended sediment loads in the Ishikari River, Japan, 1985 to 2010.

    Weili Duan;Kaoru Takara;Bin He;Pingping Luo

  • Historical assessment and future sustainability challenges of Egyptian water resources management

    Pingping Luo;Yutong Sun;Shuangtao Wang;Simeng Wang

  • DEVELOPMENT OF STAGE-DISCHARGE RELATIONSHIP EQUATION INCORPORATIONG SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW MECHANISM

    Yasuto Tachikawa;Gen Nagatani;Kaoru Takara

  • Hydrological Stream Flow Modelling for Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis Using SWAT Model in the Xedone River Basin, Lao PDR

    Bounhieng Vilaysane;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo;Inthavy Akkharath

  • Evaluation of low impact development approach for mitigating flood inundation at a watershed scale in China

    Maochuan Hu;Takahiro Sayama;Xingqi Zhang;Kenji Tanaka

  • A distributed hydrological–geotechnical model using satellite-derived rainfall estimates for shallow landslide prediction system at a catchment scale

    Apip;Kaoru Takara;Yosuke Yamashiki;Kyoji Sassa

  • Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods

    Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Yin E. Xiong

  • Changes of precipitation amounts and extremes over Japan between 1901 and 2012 and their connection to climate indices

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo;Pingping Luo

  • Estimation of potential changes in cereals production under climate change scenarios

    Kenichi Tatsumi;Yosuke Yamashiki;Roberto Valmir da Silva;Kaoru Takara

  • Mechanism of two rapid and long-runout landslides in the 16 April 2016 Kumamoto earthquake using a ring-shear apparatus and computer simulation (LS-RAPID)

    Khang Dang;Kyoji Sassa;Hiroshi Fukuoka;Naoki Sakai

  • Spatiotemporal evaluation of water quality incidents in Japan between 1996 and 2007

    Weili Duan;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Pingping Luo

  • A new high-stress undrained ring-shear apparatus and its application to the 1792 Unzen–Mayuyama megaslide in Japan

    Kyoji Sassa;Khang Dang;Bin He;Kaoru Takara

  • Spatiotemporal trend analysis of recent river water quality conditions in Japan

    Pingping Luo;Bin He;Kaoru Takara;Bam H. N. Razafindrabe

  • Input data resolution analysis for distributed hydrological modeling

    Roshan Shrestha;Yasuto Tachikawa;Kaoru Takara

  • A downscaling method of topographic index distribution for matching the scales of model application and parameter identification

    N. R. Pradhan;Y. Tachikawa;K. Takara

  • Comparison of gridded precipitation datasets for rainfall-runoff and inundation modeling in the Mekong River Basin.

    Sophal Try;Sophal Try;Shigenobu Tanaka;Kenji Tanaka;Takahiro Sayama

  • Impact of forest maintenance on water shortages: Hydrologic modeling and effects of climate change

    Pingping Luo;Meimei Zhou;Hongzhang Deng;Jiqiang Lyu

  • A hypothesis of the Senoumi submarine megaslide in Suruga Bay in Japan—based on the undrained dynamic-loading ring shear tests and computer simulation

    K. Sassa;B. He;T. Miyagi;M. Strasser

Frequent Co-Authors

Weili Duan
Weili Duan Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography
Kyoji Sassa
Kyoji Sassa Kyoto University
Hiroshi Fukuoka
Hiroshi Fukuoka Niigata University
Swadhin K. Behera
Swadhin K. Behera Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Toshio Yamagata
Toshio Yamagata Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Taikan Oki
Taikan Oki University of Tokyo
Hajime Mase
Hajime Mase Kyoto University
Khalid M. Mosalam
Khalid M. Mosalam University of California, Berkeley
Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University
Keisuke Hanaki
Keisuke Hanaki University of Tokyo

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