Coupled ‘storm-?ood’ depositional model: Application to the Miocene–Modern Baram Delta Province, north-west Borneo
The Miocene to Modern Baram Delta Province is a highly ef?cient source to sink system that has accumulated 9 to 12 km of coastal–deltaic to shelf sediments over the past 15 Myr. ...
Repeat Storm Surge Disasters of Typhoon Haiyan and Its 1897 Predecessor in the Philippines
On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan impacted the Philippines with estimated winds of approximately 314 km h-1 and an associated 5–7-m-high storm surge that struck Tacloban City an...
Loss and damage from typhoon-induced floods and landslides in the Philippines: community perceptions on climate impacts and adaptation options
Loss and damage from floods and landslides are escalating in the Philippines due to increasing frequency and intensity of typhoons. This paper investigates the types and scale of l...
China and the Singapore Model
Following the death of Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew in March 2015, China remains obsessed with Singapore, the only country in the region to achieve advanced economic ...
The Civil Defense GAZETTE 2016 Issue1
The world celebrated the first year of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030(SFDRR) on 18 March 2016 with the social media campaign #Switch2Sendai, The campaign...
The Civil Defense GAZETTE 2016 Issue2
"Our safety does not rest in the hands of one person or government agency alone. It rests in our very hands as we put them together on the concerted effort of building safer, adapt...
The Civil Defense GAZETTE 2016 Issue3
This year's theme for the observance of July as the National Disaster Consciousness Month is "Kahandaan at Pagtugon sa Sakuna, Tungkulin ng Bawat Isa". This is a call for wider peo...
The Civil Defense GAZETTE 2016 Issue4
As the year draws to end, the Philippines was battered by two strong typhoons which wreck havoc in its path. Super Typhoon Lawin in October affected the northern provinces of Luzon...
Climate Action Plan : A Climate-Resilient singapore for a sustainable future
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, and the global mean sea leve...
ASIA Science Technology Status For Disaster Risk Reduction
This publication is developed by a group of individuals from the Asia Science Techonology Academia Advisory Group (ASTAAG) with support from researchers, scientists from different ...
Application of Science and Technology for Community Water-Related Disaster Risk Reduction
In a predominantly agricultural country like Thailand, "water is life". However, water-related hazards such as flood and landslide, drought and saltwater intrusion affect people's ...
Element flux to the environment of the passively degassing crater lake-hosting Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia, and implications for estimates of the global volcanic flux
Volcanoes play an important role in the global cycling of elements by providing a pathway from the deep Earth to its surface. Here, we have constrained the flux to the environment ...
An integrated method based on DInSAR, MAI and displacement gradient tensor for mapping the 3D coseismic deformation field related to the 2011 Tarlay earthquake (Myanmar)
The satellite differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) technology has been widely applied for mapping the ground deformation associated with the geophysical e...
Recent Advances in Agent-Based Tsunami Evacuation Simulations: Case Studies in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru
As con?rmed by the extreme tsunami events over the last decade (the 2004 Indian Ocean, 2010 Chile and 2011 Japan tsunami events), mitigation measures and effective evacuation plann...