Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam: Engineering and Planning Perspectives
Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical...
Toward a Drought Cyberinfrastructure System
Drought chokes ecosystems, strangles economies, and threatens human health [Wilhite, 2005]. In the United States, drought has recently forced states, including economic powerhouses...
Earthquake History of the Sumatran Fault, Indonesia, since 1892, Derived from Relocation of Large Earthquakes
We map the fault planes of M=7.0 earthquakes along the Sumatran fault in Sumatra, western Indonesia, for the period since 1892. To obtain precise hypocenter locations of large eart...
Tropical cyclones damage on coastal defences: future influence of climate change and sea level rise on shallow coastal areas in Southern Vietnam
Greater concentrations of greenhouse gases could bring about an increase in the pace of sea level rise and typhoon intensity in the future. The number of hours that buildings and i...
Lessons learned from the Philippine government’s response to Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan was the strongest tropical cyclone to have ever hit land and provides an opportunity to analyse the application of emergency management principles in disaster respon...
The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity
Temporally inconsistent and potentially unreliable global historical data hinder the detection of trends in tropical cyclone activity1, 2, 3. This limits our confidence in evaluati...
A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring
Estimating precipitation variations in space and time is an important aspect of drought early warning and environmental monitoring. An evolving drier-than-normal season must be pla...
Assessment of flood hazards and vulnerability in Cambodian floodplain
Lower Mekong Basin(LMB) is frequently affected by flood, particularly, within the low-lying floodplains of cambodia. Populations living in the Mekong River flood vulnerability in f...
Evaluating Flood Resilience Strategies for Coastal Megacities
Recent flood disasters in the United States (2005, 2008, 2012); the Philippines (2012, 2013); and Britain (2014) illustrate how vulnerable coastal cities are to storm surge floodin...
Development of Inundation Map for Bantayan Island, Cebu Using Delft3D-Flow Storm Surge Simulations of Typhoon Haiyan
On average, 20 typhoons enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility annually, making it vulnerable to different storm hazards. Apart from the frequency of tropical cyclones, the ar...
Potential impacts of the Brunei Slide tsunami over East Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam
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Potential impacts of the Brunei Slide tsunami over East Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam
A giant submarine landslide known as the Brunei Slide was recently discovered in the North West Borneo Trough. This discovery suggests the potential of a landslide-generated tsunam...
Field survey report and satellite image interpretation of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, als...
Development of Inundation Map for Bantayan Island, Cebu Using Delft3D-Flow Storm Surge Simulations of Typhoon Haiyan
On average, 20 typhoons enter the Philippine area of responsibility annually, making it vulnerable to different storm hazards. Apart from the frequency of tropical cyclones, the ar...