[HTML][HTML] A review of informal volunteerism in emergencies and disasters: Definition, opportunities and challenges

J Whittaker, B McLennan, J Handmer - International journal of disaster risk …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite highly specialised and capable emergency management systems, ordinary citizens
are usually first on the scene in an emergency or disaster, and remain long after official …

A systematic review on flood early warning and response system (FEWRS): A deep review and analysis

W A. Hammood, R Abdullah Arshah… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Flood is the major natural hazard in Malaysia in terms of populations affected, area extent,
frequency, social–economic damage, and flood duration. This shows the importance of …

Community resilience to flood hazards in Khyber Pukhthunkhwa province of Pakistan

S Qasim, M Qasim, RP Shrestha, AN Khan… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In Pakistan, floods are recurrent phenomenon and cause heavy loss to human life, standing
crops and property. Community resilience is widely used in disasters and natural hazards …

Voluntary relocation as an adaptation strategy to extreme weather events

D King, D Bird, K Haynes, H Boon, A Cottrell… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Migration out of hazard-prone areas presents significant opportunities for disaster risk
reduction and climate change adaptation. Alongside and intermingled with opportunistic …

Resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of an inland rural town prone to flooding: a climate change adaptation case study of Charleville, Queensland, Australia

DU Keogh, A Apan, S Mushtaq, D King, M Thomas - Natural Hazards, 2011 - Springer
Australia is currently experiencing climate change effects in the form of higher temperatures
and more frequent extreme events, such as floods. Floods are its costliest form of natural …

Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise: A typology of residents and their lived values in Lakes Entrance, Australia

S Graham, J Barnett, R Fincher, A Hurlimann… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the values and socio-economic characteristics of people at risk from climate
change will inform how people feel about the likely distribution of impacts, as well as …

Rationale and methods for a cross-sectional study of mental health and wellbeing following river flooding in rural Australia, using a community-academic partnership …

JM Longman, J Bennett-Levy, V Matthews, HL Berry… - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background Climate change is associated with greater frequency, duration, intensity and
unpredictability of certain weather-related events, including floods. Floods harm mental …

[PDF][PDF] Impacts of the 2022 flooding on the residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

VE Ajumobi, SB Womboh, SB Ezem - Greener Journal of …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Many definitions of flood have been presented over time. An account by Bradshaw (2007)
defined flood as an overflow of water bodies such as rivers and lakes from its natural …

[图书][B] Impact of the 2010-11 floods and the factors that inhibit and enable household adaptation strategies

D Bird, D King, K Haynes, P Box, T Okada, K Nairn - 2013 - nccarf.edu.au
The main objective of this research was to identify the factors that inhibit and enable
adaptation strategies within flood affected communities. To achieve this, a mixed methods …

2010–2011 Q ueensland floods: Using H addon's M atrix to define and categorise public safety strategies

S Zhong, M Clark, XY Hou, YL Zang… - Emergency Medicine …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The 2010–2011 Q ueensland floods resulted in the most deaths from a single
flood event in A ustralia since 1916. This article analyses the information on these deaths for …