Publications List
Rapidly-industrializing, developing countries face increasing environmental disaster potential. Rising disaster losses are an indicator of non-sustain...
Combining different knowledges: community-based climate change adaptation in small Island developing states
Kelman IMercer JWest JJ.
This paper describes a community-based framework for combining different types of knowledge to address climate change. It builds on earlier work by Me...
Valuing indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation planning in Fiji and Vanuatu
McNamara KEPrasad SS
Pacific Island communities are heavily reliant on natural resources to sustain their livelihoods and as a consequence they have developed an intimate ...
The Mekong River Commission: transboundary water resources planning and regional security
Jacobs, J. W.
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) was established in 1995 and represents a third chapter in the Mekong Project's organizational history. The MRC's pre...
Assessment of earthquake hazard for the northwestern Vietnam from geological and geophysical data using an original program package
Ngo Thi LuM. V. RodkinTran Viet PhuongNguyen QuangPhung Thi Thu HangVu Thi Hoan
The highest seismic activity in Vietnam is observed in the northwest of the country, hence the practical significance of more accurate assessment of t...
Community-based monitoring for flood early warning system: An example in central Bicol River basin, Philippines
Abon, C. C.Primo C. David, C.Tabios III, G. Q.
The purpose of this paper is to integrate the proactive role of communities and the use of flood modeling in the implementation of a flood early warni...
Algorithm and program for earthquake prediction based on the geological, geophysical, geomorphological and seismic data
Lu, N.Phuong, T.Hang, P.Quang, N.Hoan, V
By applying an improved method of the Earth's crust classification, we develop an algorithm and build an earthquake prediction program using a comb...
Rapid and Delayed Earthquake Triggering by the Song Tranh 2 Reservoir, Vietnam
Kalpna GahalautThai Anh TuanN. Purnachandra Rao
Impoundment of the Song Tranh 2 reservoir in Vietnam was started in late 2010, and earthquakes started occurring in its vicinity soon after that. Freq...
Indigenous knowledgefor disaster risk reduction: good practices and lessons learnt from Asia-Pacific region
Shaw RUy NBaumwoll J
This publication aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural hazard-related disasters. By imp...
Preliminary Results of Anthropogenic Seismicity Monitoring in the Region of Song Tranh 2 Reservoir, Central Vietnam
Wiszniowski, J.Van Giang, N.Plesiewicz, B
Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant and the reservoir containing backed up water are located in the Quang Nam province (Central Vietnam). The region experie...
On April 30, 1991, a cyclone of unusual intensity hit the coastline of Bangladesh, causing over one hundred thousand deaths and widespread property da...
FROM A POISSON PROCESS MODEL TO A LAPLACIAN MARTINGALE PROCESS FOR EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING IN A REGION IN THE PHILIPPINES
PADUA, RobertoSieras, Noel G.Libao, Merliza F.Frias, Marlon S.
The usual Poisson process for seismic hazard assessment is utilized as basis for constructing a Laplacian martingale process to respond to objections ...
From Source to Building Fragility: Post-event Assessment of the 2013 M7.1 Bohol Philippines Earthquake
Muriel NaguitPhil CumminsMark EdwardsHadi GhasemiBartolome BautistaHyeuk RyuMarcus Haynes
We use ground motion simulations of the 2013 Bohol Philippines earthquake along with a new post-disaster exposure/damage database to constrain buildin...
Seismotectonics of the 6 February 2012 Mw 6.7 Negros Earthquake, central Philippines
M.A. AurelioJ.D.B. DianalaK.J.L. TaguibaoL.R. PastorizaK. ReyesR. SarandeA. Lucero Jr
At 03:49 UTC on the 6th of February 2012, Negros Island in the Visayan region of central Philippines was struck by a magnitude Mw 6.7 earthquake causi...
Evolving Multi-Parameter Monitoring Network in Mayon Volcano, Philippines
Bornas, M. A. V.Kumagai, H.Newhall, C.Hidayat, D.Maeda, Y.Ohkura, T.Lacson, R.
Mayon is the most active Philippine volcano, having erupted 49 times since its ?rst recorded activity in 1616. Its gamut of eruptive behavior spans sm...
Using a process-based model of pre-eruptive seismic patterns to forecast evolving eruptive styles at Sinabung Volcano, Indonesia
McCausland, W. A.Gunawan, H.White, R. A.Indrastuti, N.Patria, C.Suparman, Y.Hendrasto, M.
Most volcanoes worldwide are not monitored in real-time; for those that are, patterns of pre-eruptive earthquakes coupled with conceptual models of ma...
Human vulnerability, dislocation and resettlement: adaptation processes of river-bank erosion-induced displaces in Bangladesh
Hutton, D.C.E. Haque
The purpose of this research was to identify and analyse patterns of economic and social adaptation among river-bank erosion-induced displacees in Ban...
Enhancement of earthquake and volcano monitoring and effective utilization of disaster mitigation information in the Philippines
Inoue, H.Solidum, R. U.
The Philippines is in a Western Pacific Plate subduction zone. As in the case of Japan, earthquake and volcano disasters occur frequently, and therefo...
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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