Reporting disasters from inside a repressive regime: A citizen journalism case study of the 2008 Cyclone Nargis disaster
New technology has changed the face of global reporting. Digital technology has given citizens the capacity to report from restricted frontlines that professional journalists canno...
Super Typhoon Haiyan : ASEAN’s Katrina moment?
Super-Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated large areas of the central Philippines on 8 November, may be seen in future as an exemplar for multinational naval Humanitarian Assistance an...
Toward Global Drought Early Warning Capability: Expanding International Cooperation for the Development of a Framework for Monitoring and Forecasting
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A Remotely Sensed Global Terrestrial Drought Severity Index
Regional drought and flooding from extreme climatic events are increasing in frequency and severity, with significant adverse ecosocial impacts. Detecting and monitoring drought at...
A near real-time satellite-based global drought climate data record
Reliable drought monitoring requires long-term and continuous precipitation data. High resolution satellite measurements provide valuable precipitation information on a quasi-globa...
Post tsunami psychological impact among survivors in Aceh and West Sumatra, Indonesia
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In 2004, the province of Aceh, Indonesia was rocked by tsunami and in September 2009, West Sumatra, Indonesia was hit by an earthquake. The aim of this study was to dete...
A comparison of forest cover maps in Mainland Southeast Asia from multiple sources: PALSAR, MERIS, MODIS and FRA
The uncertainty in tracking tropical forest extent and changes substantially affects our assessment of the consequences of forest change on the global carbon cycle, biodiversity an...
Developing A Historical Typhoon Database for the Southeastern Chinese Coastal Provinces, 1951-2010
Many countries have developed their own typhoon database for the use in understanding historical typhoon. However, when each database is compared, inconsistencies are evident in te...
The global drought monitor portal: The foundation for a global drought information system
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Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes
We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth: vegetation indices from...
Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought
Shifts in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures associated with climate change are likely to cause widespread forest decline in regions where droughts are predicted to incr...