Being a part of ongoing continental collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, the
Caucasus region is a remarkable site of moderate to strong seismicity, where devastating …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …

Landscape ecological risk assessment is an effective tool to support sustainable ecosystem
management in regions with rapid urbanization. However, the characterization method of …

A plethora of methods exist to aid decision-making in mitigating disaster risk, many of which
fall into the categories of risk, vulnerability and/or resilience assessment methods. The …

Flash floods cause some of the most severe natural disasters around the world. The
extensive diversity and discontinuity of flash flood impacts, which are controlled mostly by …

To reasonably evaluate and predict the loss of rainstorm and flood disaster, this study is
based on the rainfall data and rainstorm and flood disaster data of 18 cities in Henan …

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014, suggests that an important
increase in frequency and magnitude of hazardous processes related to climate change is to …

In the US, the state, local, territorial, and tribal governments seek funding from the federal
government to repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace the disaster damaged infrastructures …

International aid for climate change adaptation in West Africa is increasing exponentially, but
our understanding of hydroclimatic risks is not keeping pace with that increase. The aim of …

Large-scale experimental, experimental-production and production work on action on hail
processes in Georgia was conducted in 1960-1989 (Kakheti, Southern Georgia) over the …