Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban ?ooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam
Urban development increases ?ood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and hydrometeorological conditions that increase ?ood hazard, as well as to urban concentration...
Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models
Historical records of precipitation, streamflow and drought indices all show increased aridity since 1950 over many land areas1, 2. Analyses of model-simulated soil moisture3, 4, d...
Spatiotemporal influences of ENSO on precipitation and flood pulse in the Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin in South East Asia has experienced in recent decades large inter-annual variations between large floods and severe droughts. The general perception is that c...
Capacity development to support national drought management policies
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite, 2000). Droughts are consider...
Development of Flood Vulnerability Indices for Lower Mekong Basin in Cambodain Floodplain
Floods frequently occur in the world, which cause serious damage of properties and loss of lives. It is thus important to identify flood vulnerability in flood-prone area. This stu...
Study On Tsunami Inundation Simulation In The Northwestern Coast Of Sabah, Malaysia
Megathrust earthquakes from the Manila Trench with large scale of magnitude 9.0 or greater can lead to an extremely large thrust fault that could generate a widespread tsunami whic...
Mapping tsunami impacts on land cover and related ecosystem service supply in Phang Nga, Thailand
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused damages to coastal ecosystems and thus affected the livelihoods of the coastal communities who depend on services provided by these ecosystems....
El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia
Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality1. Here, we combine satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify health effects from fir...
Review of emission factors for assessment of CO2 emission from land use change to oil palm in Southeast Asia
This paper reviews published reports of carbon stocks, emission factors and approaches for estimating CO2 emissions from land use change and peat soils. Above ground carbon stock v...
Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: the cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and over two-thirds of the world's cities will be exposed to flooding within the next 30 years due to factors including clima...
Disaster risk management communication in ASEAN case study in flood
This paper covers in natural disaster specific in flood. Due to flood is a type of hazard that affects more people as it was evidently shown in the disaster of Thailand, Philippine...
Tropical Cyclones and Storm Surges in Southern Vietnam
The present paper would focus on lessons that have been learnt through field trips carried out in southern Vietnam and numerical analysis that will show how the lack of knowledge t...
A manifestation of climate change? A look at Typhoon Yolanda in relation to the historical tropical cyclone archive
The IBTRACS world database of tropical cyclone(TC) tracks was analysed to determine potential historical trends in TC characteristics for the west Pacif ic basin. Trends are then r...