Climate change impacts are increasingly complex owing to compounding, interacting, and
cascading risks across sectors. However, approaches to support Disaster Risk Management …

Urban flood frequencies have increased and will continuously increase due to global
climate change and rapid urbanization, causing enormous economic problems and social …

This paper identifies the underlying complexities and contextual influences that shape the
responses to chronic and episodic coastal flooding in rural and urban communities along …

The sponge city concept is a new strategy for China designed to solve its urban water
problems. The tasks involved in sponge city construction (SCC) have brought new …

The objective of this paper is to propose a framework for characterizing and analyzing
institutional connectedness as an emerging property in the human system affecting …

According to the United Nations, by 2030, 60% of the world's population will live in cities,
and 70% by 2050. Both consolidated and fast urbanizing areas face diverse acute shocks …

What are the roles of governments and other actors in solving, or alleviating, collective
action problems in today's world? The traditional conceptual frameworks of public …

In this study, a series of laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the energy
loss through the hybrid defense system (HDS) in the order of dike, moat, and emergent …

The paradigm shift in flood management from hard measure to soft measure tends to
increase because current flood relief mitigation systems could not answer the flooding issue …

Governance of societal transformations toward sustainability is needed to address the
fundamental system failures responsible for environmental problems. Possible …