Quantitative cost-benefit analysis for typhoon resilient housing in Danang city, Vietnam
Located in Central Vietnam, Da Nang city is experiencing rapid urbanization and development. In recent years, floods and storms have caused critical damage and losses to local comm...
The magnitude and causes of global drought changes in the twenty-first century under a low-moderate emission scenario
Atmospheric demand for moisture and dry days are expected to increase, leading to drying over land in the twenty-first century. Here, the magnitude and key drivers of this drying a...
Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
This paper considers the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the Red River delta region of Vietnam. Permanently inundated lands and temporary flood zones are analyzed by co...
Rapid assessment of crop status: An application of MODIS and SAR data to rice areas in Leyte, Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan
Asian countries strongly depend on rice production for food security. The major rice-growing season (June to October) is highly exposed to the risk of tropical storm related damage...
A Conceptual Review of Tsunami Models Based on Sumatera-Andaman Tsunami Event
Sumatra-Andaman tsunami was categorized as the third worst tsunami by the United State Geology Survey (USGS). The tsunami was triggered at 00:58:53 UTC by a massive earthquake with...
A Conceptual Review of Tsunami Models Based on Sumatera-Andaman Tsunami Event
Sumatra-Andaman tsunami was categorized as the third worst tsunami by the United State Geology Survey (USGS). The tsunami was triggered at 00:58:53 UTC by a massive earthquake with...
The impact of the 24 March 2011 Myanmar earthquake (MS 7.2) on seismic structure of the Yunnan region
The temporal and spatial variations of the velocity structure 60 days before and after the March 24, 2011 Myanmar M7.2 earthquake in the Yunnan region are studied by using the amb...
A Link between the Hiatus in Global Warming and North American Drought
Portions of western North America have experienced prolonged drought over the last decade. This drought has occurred at the same time as the global warming hiatus—a decadal perio...
LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
This document is a record of the Inception Workshop for the first phase of the ASEAN-India Project on "Enhancing Local Level Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia". The proje...
Field survey report and satellite image interpretation of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims, another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, also known as...
Forensic identification and identity politics in 2004 post-tsunami Thailand: Negotiating dissolving boundaries
This article considers the contexts and processes of forensic identification in 2004 post-tsunami Thailand as examples of identity politics. The presence of international forensic ...
Sediment Transport and bedform dynamics during a major, typhoon-driven, flood on a large tropical river
Fluvial sediment transport in tropical-monsoonal rivers are characterised by some of the highest sediment yields on Earth, yet the unsteady dynamics and partitioning of sediment tr...
Landslide Susceptibility Analysis in Central Vietnam Based on an Incomplete Landslide Inventory: Comparison of a New Method to Calculate Weighting Factors by Means of Bivariate Statistics
Vietnam is regarded as a country strongly impacted by climate change. Population and economic growth result in additional pressures on the ecosystems in the region. In particular, ...
Typhoons: Storm-surge models helped for Hagupit
The Philippine government learned from shortcomings in the preparations for Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 (see R. Lejano et al. Nature 518, 35; 2015, and A. M. F. Lagmay et al. Int. J. Di...