Publications List
Climatic hazards warning process in Bangladesh—Experience of, and lessons from the 1991 April cyclone
Haque, C.E.
Science and technology cannot control entirely the causes of natural hazards. However, by using multifaceted programs to modify the physical and human...
Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia
Buckley, B. M.Anchukaitis, K. J.Penny, D.Fletcher, R.Cook, E.R.Sano, M.Nam, L.C.Wichienkeeo, A.Minh, T. T.Hong T. M.
The “hydraulic city” of Angkor, the capitol of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia, experienced decades-long drought interspersed with intense monsoons i...
An integrated methodology to develop a standard for landslide early warning systems
Fathani, T. F.Karnawati, D.Wilopo, W.
Landslides are one of the most widespread and commonly occurring natural hazards. In regions of high vulnerability, these complex hazards can cause si...
Upland rice weeds of South and Southeast Asia. Makati City, Philippines, International Rice Research Institute
Galitnato, M.I., Moody, K., Piggin, C. M.
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Hydrological roles of the Cambodian floodplain of the Mekong River
Fujii, H.Garsdal, H.Ward, P.Ishii, M.Morishita, K.Boivin, T.
The purpose of this study was to assess the hydrological roles of the Cambodian floodplain of the Mekong River, from Kompong Cham as far south as the ...
IMPORTANCE OF RAINFALL MEASUREMENTS FOR THE FLOOD FORECASTING OF THE MEKONG RIVER BASIN
Hapuarachchi, H. A. P.TAKEUCHI, K.FUKAMI, K.INOMATA, H.ZHOU, M.
This paper presents the results of an application of a grid based distributed hydrological model, BTOPMC (Block-wise use of TOPMODEL with Muskingum-Cu...
Projected hydrological changes and their consistency under future climate in the Chao Phraya River Basin using multi-model and multi-scenario
Kotsuki, S.Tanaka, K.Watanabe, S.
It is important to examine what future hydrological changes could occur as a result of climate change. In this study, we projected hydrological change...
Sensitivity and identi?ability of stream ?ow generation parameters of the SWAT model
Cibin, R.Sudheer, K. P.Chaubey, I.
Implementation of sensitivity analysis (SA) procedures is helpful in calibration of models and also for their transposition to different watersheds. T...
Controlling nature, disciplining human nature: Floods in Singapore and Metro Manila, 1945–1980s
Loh, K. S.Pante, M. D.
A history of urban floods underlines the state's efforts to discipline people as well as to control floodwaters. We focus on two big cities in Southea...
Disaster preparedness in Malaysia: An exploratory study
Dorasamy, M.Raman, M.Muthaiyah, S.Kaliannan, M.
Malaysians are increasingly finding themselves exposed to disasters especially land slides and flood. However, concern can be raised about citizen’s...
Coastal inundation and damage exposure estimation: a case study for Jakarta
Ward, P. J.Marfai, M. A.Yulianto, F.Hizbaron, D. R.Aerts, J. C.
Coastal ?ooding poses serious threats to coastal areas, and the vulnerability of coastal communities and economic sectors to ?ooding will increase in ...
DHAKA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people living in tents since a cyclone devastated the southern Bangladesh coast in November are now bat...
Global warming and western north Pacific typhoon activity from an observational perspective
Chan, J. C. L.K. S. Liu
Based on results from climate model simulations, many researchers have suggested that because of global warming, the sea surface temperature (SST) wil...
Flood susceptible mapping and risk area delineation using logistic regression, GIS and remote sensing
Pradhan, B.
Recently, in the year 2006, 2007 and 2008 heavy monsoons rainfall have triggered floods along Malaysia's east coast as well as in different parts of t...
Modeling the hydrologic responses of the Pampanga River basin, Philippines: A quantitative approach for identifying droughts
Jaranilla-Sanchez, P. A., Wang, L., & Koike, T.
Drought in the Philippines has been monitored for agricultural and economic losses, but spatial and temporal characterization at the basin scale has n...
Spatial prediction of rainfall-induced landslides for the Lao Cai area (Vietnam) using a hybrid intelligent approach of least squares support vector machines inference model and artificial bee colony optimization
Bui, D. T.Tuan, T. A.Hoang, N. D.Thanh, N. Q.Nguyen, D. B.Van Liem, N.Pradhan, B.
The main objective of this study is to produce a landslide susceptibility map for the Lao Cai area (Vietnam) using a new hybrid intelligent method bas...
Rainfall Amount, Intensity, Duration, and Frequency Relationships in the Mae Chaem Watershed in Southeast Asia
Dairaku, K.Emori, S.Oki, T.
A dense tipping-bucket rain gauge network was established in the Mae Chaem watershed in the mountains of northwestern Thailand as part of the Global E...
TyphoonisoneofthemajorweatherdisastersinChina’scoastalandsomeinland areas. This study focuses on the evaluation of typhoon disaster in Zhejiang prov...
Capacity development to support national drought management policies
UN-Water Activity Information System
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite...
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