What are the possible humanistic approaches to urban flood disaster governance? Several largest cities in Southeast Asia, such as Bangkok, Jakarta, an...
Mat Kamaruzaman Mat Adam, Nursalleh K. Chang, Dr. Fariza Yunus and Muhammad Helmi Abdullah
Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) has fully operationalised the provision of marine forecasts over the Malaysian waters especially over the So...
Design flood estimation is an important task that is required in the planning and design of many civil engineering projects. In this study, the flood ...
Bangladesh is situated at the northern tip of the funneling Bay of Bengal. The long continental shelf, shallow bathymetry, and complex coastal geometr...
Revised estimates of kinetic energy production by tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and western North Pacific are presented. These show considerable v...
From killer storms to their implications for the insurance premiums of U.S. residents, this much-awaited update explores the ecological, social, and e...
Institutional aspects of flood hazards significantly affect their outcomes in Malaysia. Institutional arrangements to deal with floods include: legisl...
Phanuwan, C.Takizawa, S.Oguma, K.Katayama, H.Yunika, A.Ohgaki, S.
Floodwaters in Kampung Melayu village, Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as river water and consumable water (including groundwater and tap water) samples i...
Every year floods occur in Jakarta. Widespread flooding occurred in 1996, 2002 and 2007, inundating up to 40% of the city. Increasing population press...
Majumdar, S. J.Aberson, S. D.Bishop, C. H.Buizza, R.Peng, M. S.Reynolds, C. A.
Airborne adaptive observations have been collected for more than two decades in the neighborhood of tropical cyclones, to attempt to improve short-ran...
Jakarta, as the capital of the Republic of Indonesia, has long been known to be at risk from ?ood hazard. It is increasingly recognized that community...
Risk insurance has been advocated as a practice that has high potential to provide climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction benefits. How...
This paper proposes a multi-stage framework for intelligent decision support. The proposed framework integrates case-based reasoning and fuzzy multicr...
Background
Internet social networking tools and the emerging web 2.0 technologies are providing a new way for web users and health workers in informa...
This paper presents the conceptual framework of fuzzy intelligent decision support system for typhoon disaster management. The typhoon risk management...
Linking community knowledge with modern techniques to record and analyse risk related data is one way of engaging and mobilising community capacity. T...
Typhoon-induced disaster is one of the most important factors influencing the economic development and more than 250 million in China. In view of the ...