Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

A series of weaknesses in creativity, research design, and quality of writing continue to
handicap energy social science. Many studies ask uninteresting research questions, make …

Poor people are disproportionally affected by natural hazards and disasters. This paper
provides a review of the multiple factors that explain why this is the case. It explores the role …

This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for understanding the relationship
between climate change and “within-country inequalities,” referred here collectively as …

The behaviour of individuals, businesses, and government entities before, during, and
immediately after a disaster can dramatically affect the impact and recovery time. However …

The construction of polders in the coastal region of Bangladesh has significantly modified
the patterns of flooding, as well as leading to significant land use/land cover (hereinafter …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

While climate change is a global phenomenon, its negative impacts are more severely felt in
poor countries because of their high dependence on natural resources and limited coping …

We can expect climate change to alter the frequency, magnitude, timing, and location of
many natural hazards. For example, heat waves are likely to become more frequent, and …

Flood risk assessments provide inputs for the evaluation of flood risk management (FRM)
strategies. Traditionally, such risk assessments provide estimates of loss of life and …