Umar, Z.Pradhan, B.Ahmad, A.Jebur, M. N.Tehrany, M. S.
An 8 Richter Scale (RS) earthquake struck West Sumatra on Wednesday, 30 September 2009, at 17.16 pm which led to huge number of landslides. Hence a c...
Mas, E.Bricker, J.Kure, S.Adriano, B.Yi, C.Suppasri, A.Koshimura, S.
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This t...
This article reviews recent literature on drought of the last millennium, followed by an update on global aridity changes from 1950 to 2008. Projected...
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...
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite...