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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...
This study investigates the perceptions of local people on climate change and related hazards in Yang Luang Village (YLV), which is located in the mou...
This article investigates whether the highest global temperature during 2001–2012 triggered some changes in drought area, frequency, intensity and d...
Landslide hazard results in great loss of life and property. These damages can be mitigated if the cause and effect relationships of the events are kn...
Super Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on 7 November 2013, causing tremendous damage to infrastructure and loss of l...

Agricultural intensification for food security in rainfed rice-based systems of southern Lao PDR

Sengxua, P.Bouahom, B.Sihathep, V.Thiravong, K.Wade, L.Kato, Y.Samson, B.
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) project CSE/2009/004 (Developing improved farming and marketing systems in rainfed r...
Anthropogenic climate change has the potential for slightly increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones through warming of sea surface temperatures1...

Flood and Landslide Applications of near Real-Time Satellite Rainfall Products

Hong, YangRobert F. AdlerAndrew NegriGeorge J. Huffman
Floods and associated landslides account for the largest number of natural disasters and affect more people than any other type of natural disaster. W...
Our earth's climate is changeing. Heat waves are likely to be more frequent and longer-lasting, extreme rainfall will become more intense and frequent...
Droughts produce a large number of socio-economic impacts which may arise from the interaction between natural conditions and human factors. There is...
The interception and smoothing effect of forest canopies on pulses of incident rainfall and its delivery to the soil has been suggested as a factor in...
The development and implementation of a drought policy is intended to alter a nation’s approach to drought management. A national drought policy sho...
This study presents results from mechanistic experiments to clarify the origin and maintenance of the Oklahoma–Texas (OK–TX) drought of the 1998 s...
A geomechanical study of the Champion Southeast (CPSE) field, Brunei was undertaken as part of the planning of a waterflood in the field. The key geom...
An 8 Richter Scale (RS) earthquake struck West Sumatra on Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 17.16 pm which led to huge number of landslides. Hence a c...
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This t...
When international medical response teams landed in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, they had to act as professional humanitarian responders. Med...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...