Although flood risk perceptions and their concomitant motivations for behaviour have long
been recognised as significant features of community resilience in the face of flooding …

More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within
the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people …

As a concept, social vulnerability describes combinations of social, cultural, economic,
political, and institutional processes that shape socioeconomic differentials in the …

This paper presents recommended methodologies for the quantitative analysis of landslide
hazard, vulnerability and risk at different spatial scales (site-specific, local, regional and …

Social vulnerability indices have emerged over the past decade as quantitative measures of
the social dimensions of natural hazards vulnerability. But how reliable are the index …

Forests fires in northern Iran have always been common, but the number of forest fires has
been growing over the last decade. It is believed, but not proven, that this growth can be …

Pakistan is ranked among the most climate change adversely affected countries of the world
due to facing higher frequency of extreme natural hazards events as floods, drought, and …

Indonesia is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and situated at the joining point of four major
world tectonic plates. Regions of Indonesia are highly prone to various natural hazards such …

This paper advocates the use of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory as a framework to
analyse resilience at diverse scales. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory can be …

Australia is exposed to a wide range of natural hazards, including earthquake, cyclone,
landslide, flood, storm surge, severe wind, bushfire, coastal erosion, hail storm and drought …