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The present paper would focus on lessons that have been learnt through field trips carried out in southern Vietnam and numerical analysis that will sh...
In this research on disaster warning systems, the Philippines was selected to be a case study. The Philippines was hit by a particularly bad storm in ...
While the Asian countries have been successful in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction, the region cannot avoid exposure to a variety of di...
The uncertainty in tracking tropical forest extent and changes substantially affects our assessment of the consequences of forest change on the global...
The process by which different ecological conditions and historical trajectories interacted to create different social and cultural systems resulted i...
Subsistence systems in insular Southeast Asia and the western Pacific are geographically patterned: from west to east, grain crops disappear while roo...
The aim of this study is to evaluate landslide hazard analysis at Selangor area, Malaysia using optical remote sensing data and a Geographic Informati...

Developing global climate anomalies suggest potential disease risk for 2006-2007

Anyamba, A.Chretien, J.-P.Small, J.Tucher, C. J.Linthicum, K. J.
The current development of El Nino conditions has significant implications for global public health. Extremes in climate events with above normal rain...
Over the past two decades, natural disasters have severely hit the Southeast Asian region causing dramatic environmental, economic and social conseque...

Street floods in Metro Manila and possible solutions

A.M.F. LagmayJ. MendozaK. PunayN.E. TinginP.A. DelmendoM.A. MoisesF. CiprianoJ. SerranoL. SantosN.PellejeraG. SabioH.J. TanizaM.N. Lacsamana
Urban floods from thunderstorms cause severe problems in Metro Manila due to road traffic. Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)-derived topograph...
The connection between El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and precipitation and temperature variability worldwide is increasingly well unders...
Drought is the most complex and least understood of all natural hazards, affecting more people than any other hazard (Hagman, 1984). For the past seve...

The December 2012 Mayo River debris flow triggered by Super Typhoon Bopha in Mindanao, Philippines: Lessons learned and questions raised

K. S. RodolfoA. M. F. LagmayR. C. EcoT. M. L. HerreroJ. E. MendozaL. G. MinimoJ. T. Santiago
Category 5 Super Typhoon Bopha, the world's worst storm of 2012, formed abnormally close to the Equator, and its landfall on Mindanao set the record p...
This study examines the different impacts of two types of El Niños, the eastern Pacific El Niño (EP-EN) and the central Pacific El Niño (CP-EN), on...
Alluvial fans are prominent depositional geomorphic features present in nearly all global climates on Earth, and also found on Mars. In this study, we...

Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia

van der Werf, G. R.Dempewolf, J.Trigg, S. N.Randerson, J. T.Kasibhatla, P. sGiglo, L.
Drainage of peatlands and deforestation have led to large-scale fires in equatorial Asia, affecting regional air quality and global concentrations of ...
The weight penetrometer is a light weight device and can be easily deployed on slopes not accessible to conventional exploratory tools such as drill r...
The main objective of this study is to investigate the potential application of support vector machines (SVM) with kernel functions analysis for spati...