The Lincoln Declaration on Drought Indices
Improved drought monitoring and early warning systems are urgently needed to cope with current and potentially changing drought patterns as we move into the future. Drought is ...
Characterizing changes in drought risk for the United States from climate change
The effect of climate change on the frequency and intensity of droughts across the contiguous United States over the next century is assessed by applying Standardized Precipitation...
Taiwan in 2009: Eroding Landslide
After landslide victories in elections in 2008, the ruling Kuomintang(Nationalist Party) under Ma Ying-jeou promoted closer economic thies with the booming economy of main-land Chi...
Promoting a Model of Research-Based Education in Disaster Mitigation.
This paper highlights the importance to provide appropriate education model with multidisciplinary approach for supporting the capacity development in disaster mitigation. This edu...
Dynamic Landslide Warning from Rainfall and Soil Suction Measurement
Landslides due to heavy rainfall are remarkably increased during the last decade. Past recordshows that Thailand had lost in average 15 lives and 105 mbaht annually. The method of ...
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping with Heuristic Approach in Mountainous Area: A Case Study in Tawangmangu Sub District Central Java, Indonesia
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Landslide Hazard Assessment Using Analytic Hierarchy Processing (AHP) and Geographic Information System in Kaligesing Mountain Area of Central Java Province Indonesia
Landslide is type of natural disaster which may cause huge losses of live and properties. Many landslides triggering factors found in Kaligesing make this zone as landslide prone a...
Development of Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System in Indonesia
Landslide is one of most major disasters in Indonesia due to the susceptibility of the region and socio-economical conditions of the country. Since 2007, a community-based early wa...
Dynamic Landslide Warning from Rainfall and Soil Suction Measurement
Landslides due to heavy rainfall are remarkably increased during the last decade. Past recordshows that Thailand had lost in average 15 lives and 105 mbaht annually. The method of ...
Development of a Wireless Landslide Monitoring System
This paper reports on development of a wireless landslide monitoring system. The monitoring devices employed consist of rain gauge, piezometers/tensiometers for measuring both posi...
Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management
The Asia-Pacific Network (APN) for Global Change Research is an international network of member governments whose mission is to enable investigation of change in the Earth's life s...
An analysis of Typhoon Chanthu in June 2004 with focus on the impact on Thailand
In this paper, the influence of Typhoon Chanthu on Thailand during June 2004 was studied. Several major features have been revealed. (1) Chanthu formed and developed in favorable l...
Committing to Regional Cooperation: ASEAN, Globalisation and the Shin Corporation–Temasek Holdings Deal
This paper investigates the relationship between regional and national identities in the age of globalisation, with particular reference to the Association of Southeast Asian Natio...
Comparison of Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Methodologies for Koyulhisar, Turkey: Conditional Probability, Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, and Support Vector Machine
This case study presented herein compares the GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping methods such as conditional probability (CP), logistic regression (LR), artificial neural n...