NATURAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT OF SW MYANMAR - A CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS METHODS TO THE DETECTION OF AREAS VULNERABLE TO EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMI / CYCLONE FLOODING
Myanmar, formerly Burma, is vulnerable to several natural hazards, such as earthquakes, cyclones, floods, tsunamis and landslides. The present study focuses on geomorphologic and g...
The impact of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean and South China Sea on the rainfall in Malaysia
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are intense synoptic systems that significantly modifies the basic atmospheric state through the entire troposphere. This has a strong influence on the regi...
Multicentennial megadrought in northern Europe coincided with a global El Niño–Southern Oscillation drought pattern during the Medieval Climate Anomaly
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a pacemaker of global climate, and the accurate prediction of future climate change requires an understanding of the ENSO variability....
Strategic Program for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction: A Lesson Learned from Central Java, Indonesia
The Indonesian Archipelago is one dynamic volcanic arc region, where landslides frequently occur during the rainy sseason. Not only are geological conditions and high precipitaion ...
Discharge Atomization Research for Namtha River No. 1 Hydropower Station in Laos [J]
Namtha River No.1 Hydropower Station in Laos is designed with high flood discharge and low trajectory bucket.According to the available research achievements of China,a qualitative...
CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS FOR MALAYSIA
Earth surface temperature records have clearly indicated that the climate of the earth is warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR...
Evaluation of flood control and inundation conservation in Cambodia using flood and economic growth models
This paper evaluates the optimal spatial flood protection for people living with the threat of floods in the lower Mekong River region with respect to hydrology and economics. A hy...
Inter-annual and inter-decadal variations of landfalling tropical cyclones in East Asia. part I: Time series analysis
This paper is the first of a two-part series that presents results of a comprehensive study of the variations in the annual number of landfalling tropical cyclones (ATCs) in variou...
Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India
Take-up of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India decreases with basis risk between insurance payouts and income fluctuations, increa...
Restoration ecology of lowland tropical peatlands in southeast Asia: Current knowledge and future research directions
Studies of restoration ecology are well established for northern peatlands, but at an early stage for tropical peatlands. Extensive peatland areas in Southeast Asia have been degra...
GIS application for landslide hazard mapping in Phang Nga Region, Southern Thailand
Earthquake on 26 December 2004 induces many small-scale landslides in southern of Thailand. In particular, people in many villages located within high hill terrains of Phang Nga pr...
Longitudinal distributions of river flood power: the combined automated flood, elevation and stream power (CAFES) methodology
Stream power can be an extremely useful index of fluvial sediment transport, channel pattern, river channel erosion and riparian habitat development. However, most previous studies...