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The Kolkata Cyclone 1864: loss of life and its effects in Bengal, India
The great Kolkata Cyclone of 5 October 1864 is still felt in the hearts of people in Bengal after 158 years. Almost every year, the inhabitants of...
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Identifying key processes and sectors in the interaction between climate and socio-economic systems: a review toward integrating Earth–human systems
For the purpose of identifying the key processes and sectors involved in the interaction between Earth and socio-economic systems, we review existing...
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Storage and Collection
World has seen dramatic changes in solid waste managementSolid Waste Management (SWM) historically with respect to storageStorage and...
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Filling the Disaster Data Gap: Lessons from Cataloging Singapore’s Past Disasters
International disaster databases and catalogs provide a baseline for researchers, governments, communities, and organizations to understand the risk...
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The Science of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise
Although there is natural variability in climate when measured over millions or billions of years, the speed of climate change has accelerated as a...
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Waterlogging induced loss and damage assessment of urban households in the monsoon period: a case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Every monsoon period, the households in Dhaka face extensive waterlogging in their localities. This recrudescing event leads to tangible and...
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Spatial susceptibility analysis of vector-borne diseases in KMC using geospatial technique and MCDM approach
The prevalence of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) like malaria and dengue claims many parts of the capital city Kolkata. Although the frequency of...
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Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda II: Paris Climate Agreement
In December 2015, the twenty-first Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) convened in Paris, France and the Paris Agreement was adopted on...
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Climate change and public health: a study of vector-borne diseases in Odisha, India
The construction of paleo-climatic calendar based on various evidences as well as instrumental records of climatic elements tell that climate has...
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Emerging Impacts of Climate Change on Human-Health in Santos Municipality in the Context of São Paulo State
In Brazil, around 12.5 million cases of Dengue fever were recorded from 1990 to 2016. The Southeast is the most affected region with just over 6...
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Land-Use Changes: Floodplains, Dams, and Reservoirs – Integrated River Basins Management
Since the initiation stage of human civilization, the riverine ecosystems underwent varied form of alterations for the cause of several...
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Urban Water and Health Issues in Hong Kong
A basic necessity of health is the provision of a safe, harmless, reliable, accessible and affordable water supply. In cities, community well-being...
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Future increase in extreme El Nino events under greenhouse warming increases Zika virus incidence in South America
The Zika virus (ZIKV) was first found in Zika forest, Uganda in 1947. The disease appeared in the Americas, Northeast Brazil in May 2015. ZIKV...
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Health-EDRM in International Policy Agenda III: 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)
In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit. The...
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The elusive parasite: comparing macroscopic, immunological, and genomic approaches to identifying malaria in human skeletal remains from Sayala, Egypt (third to sixth centuries AD)
Although malaria is one of the oldest and most widely distributed diseases affecting humans, identifying and characterizing its presence in ancient...
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Assessing the impact of EI Niño southern oscillation index and land surface temperature fluctuations on dengue fever outbreaks using ARIMAX(p)-PARX(p)-NBARX(p) models
The dengue infectious disease remnants a human health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. In an Auto Regressive model to assess the role...
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Impacts of Coastal Waters and Flooding on Human Health
Floods are among the most common natural hazards with complex and far-reaching impacts. Coastal floods are most often caused by storm surge...
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The South Florida Study Area
South Florida is a popular destination for new residents and tourists, attracting a great deal of residential property investment from other parts of...
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A Review of the Health Sector Impacts of 4 °C or more Temperature Rise
Threat of extreme warming on human health poses risks worldwide. The impacts of extreme warming on human health can be direct and indirect, and...
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Pathogen adaptation to temperature with density dependent host mortality and climate change
The present study explores the thermal adaptability in pathogens and tries to find out a relationship between climate warming and diseases. The...
