Standard approaches to disaster mitigation and recovery have, until recently, tended to overlook the role of social resources. This chapter investiga...
Lai, Allen YuhungJingwei Alex HeTeck Boon TanKai Hong Phua
The Southeast Asian region is remarkably vulnerable to natural disasters which repeatedly cause devastations to both human lives and properties. Howev...
The Indonesian archipelago is known for the occurrence of catastrophic earthquake-generated tsunamis along the Sunda Arc. The tsunami hazard associate...
Miyamoto, M.Ono, M.Okazumi, T.Nabesaka, S.Iwami, Y.
A basin-wide flood monitoring and warning systems is being implemented sequentially in river basins of the Philippines, which suffer from severe flood...
Drawing upon the recent advances of satellite remote-sensing technology and landslide modelling techniques, a framework is proposed to attempt an earl...
Though Brunei Darussalam is a small country, it has the highest percentage of energy usage per capita as well as the largest carbon footprints of 22.9...
A case study is presented in order to identify the effect of antecedent rainfall on slope stability for Singapore. A storm in February 1995 caused mor...
This paper deals with landslide hazards and risk analysis of Penang Island, Malaysia using Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing data...
For landslide susceptibility mapping, this study applied, verified and compared a probability model, a frequency ratio and statistical model, a logist...
This paper presents the use of flood frequency analysis integrating with 1D Hydraulic model (HECRAS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) to prepar...
A preponderance of the world’s population is expected to live in urban environments by 2050 (ADB, Asia 2050: realizing the Asian century. ADB, Manil...
Akkrawintawong, K.Chotikasathien, W.Daorerk, V.Charusiri, P.
Earthquake on 26 December 2004 induces many small-scale landslides in southern of Thailand. In particular, people in many villages located within high...
During year 2012 to 2015, there are number of landslide occurred in West Sumatra - Indonesia which have been recorded. Those disasters had taken lives...
Most landslide hazard assessment algorithms in common use are applied to small regions, where high-resolution, in situ, observables are available. A p...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...