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Present study presented a methodology for landslide susceptibility mapping using an integrated geospatial technology and ground based observation. IRS...
Sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Indonesian island of Sumatra is a hot spot for geohazards. A large fault known as the Sumatran Fault, which h...

Shallow landslide susceptibility mapping using high-resolution topography for areas devastated by super typhoon Haiyan

Rabonza, M. L.Felix, R. P.Lagmay, A. M. F. A., Eco, R. N. C.Ortiz, I. J. G.Aquino, D. T.
Super typhoon Haiyan, considered as one of the most powerful storms recorded in 2013, devastated the central Philippines region on 8 November 2013 wit...
We present an interplate coupling model of the Australia–Java plate interface off the southwestern coast of Java, Indonesia, based on data from the ...
For predictive landslide susceptibility mapping, this study applied and verified probability model, the frequency ratio and statistical model, logisti...
The Batu Feringgi area (N coast, Penang Island), with a high concentration of beach hotels, is critical to the tourist economy of Malaysia. Three larg...
Scientific validity has historically been measured against notions of objectivity. However, try as we might, we cannot divorce ourselves from our own ...
Tsunami, storm and ?ash-?ood event layers, which have been deposited over the last century on the shelf offshore Khao Lak (Thailand, Andaman Sea), are...
Ambae Island is the largest of Vanuatu’s active volcanoes. It is also one of the nation’s potentially most dangerous, with 60 million m3 of lake...
In a predominantly agricultural country like Thailand, "water is life". However, water-related hazards such as flood and landslide, drought and saltwa...

Hurricanes and global warming

Pielke, Jr, R.A.Landsea, C.W.Mayfield, M., Laver, JPasch, R.
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Identification of Tsunami deposits has long been a controversial issue among geologists. Although there are many identification criteria based on the ...
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...
In investigating ways to reduce community vulnerability to environmental hazards it is essential to recognize the interaction between indigenous and s...
This chapter deals with three cases of knowledge-based DRR activities conducted by SEEDS Asia, a Japan-based NGO, in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Japan. From...
The 1997 Indonesia forest fires was an environmental disaster of exceptional proportions. Such a disaster caused massive transboundary air pollution a...

Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster

Sodhi, N. S.Koh, L. P.Brook, B. W.Ng, P. K. L.
Southeast Asia has the highest relative rate of deforestation of any major tropical region, and could lose three quarters of its original forests by 2...
The Southeast Asia rainfall (SEAR) anomalies depend strongly on phases of El Niño (La Niña). Using an extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) ...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...