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Map** Flood Hazard in Marinduque, Philippines, Using Maximum Entropy Approach
Flood is a widespread, recurring, and damaging natural hazard across the globe. In the Philippines, yearly heavy rains, monsoons, and typhoons cause...
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Multi-hazard assessment under climate change in the aerotropolis coastal city of Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta – Indonesia
Climate change is an issue that can affect the dynamics of coastal areas. Besides storing abundant potential resources, coastal areas also contain...
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Hazard Modeling and Assessment of the Nile Delta Coast Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
The book presents the results of a doctoral thesis conducted under the supervision of two international governmental universities in Egypt and the...
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Landslide hazard zones differentiated according to thematic weighting: Road alignment in North Sikkim Himalayas, India
Geospatial analysis is a powerful tool for assessing landslide frequency distribution and hazard potential zones along road alignment in North Sikkim...
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Assessment of the Exogeodynamic Hazard of Catastrophic Flash Floods on the Territory of the Ulaanbaatar Agglomeration
AbstractThe study area is located in the Ulaanbaatar basin and is characterized by complicated environmental conditions determined by the...
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Flood Hazard Map** Using Hydraulic Models and GIS: A Review
Floods are a natural event and are among the most frequent and destructive disasters, causing major infrastructure losses and disrupting livelihoods...
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Assessment of desertification hazard using RS and GIS to compare the efficiency of FAO-UNEP and MEDALUS models
This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of FAO-UNEP and MEDALUS models in evaluating desertification risk in the south of Nishabur, located in...
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Hazard assessment and an adaptation-based design as a tool for coastal resilience in Istanbul
Istanbul has to deal with increasing water-based disasters due to global climate change. Current studies commonly look for risk assessment models,...
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Flash flood hazard assessment in the Amlog Valley Basin, North-West Galala City, Egypt, based on a morphometric approach
One of the natural threats that arises as a result of temporary surface runoff is flooding, which has a large amount of solid material, a high level...
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Geospatial Technology for Multi-hazard Risk Assessment
Many parts of the globe face numerous natural disasters, including terrible earthquakes, terrible landslides, epidemics, drought and/or flooding. In...
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Flash flooding hazard assessment, modeling, and management in the coastal zone of Ras Ghareb City, Gulf of Suez, Egypt
The assessment of flash flood hazards in the coastal zone of Ras Ghareb City (RGC), Red Sea, Egypt, was accomplished through the use of GIS tools and...
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UAS Policies, Workflows, and Challenges in Hazard Environments
Disaster areas are highly sensitive and stressful areas that require coordinating with emergency managers and law enforcement in order to...
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Hydrogeological Hazard Susceptibility and Community Risk Perception in Rwanda A Case Study of Floods and Landslides
This book employs qualitative and quantitative methods to assess and scrutinize the impacts of climatic, topographic, land use, hydrologic and...
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Determination of rock mass strength parameters for use in local-scale seismic landslide hazard zonation, Roudbar quadrangle, Iran
The aim is to identify and assessment of the shear strength parameters (φ and c) of the geological formation in the Roudbar quadrangle at a regional...
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Deep learning-based framework for vegetation hazard monitoring near powerlines
The increasing popularity of drones has led to their adoption by electric utility companies to monitor intrusive vegetation near powerlines. The...
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River Hydromorphology and Flood Hazard in Somalia
The Juba and Wabe Shabelle are the largest permanent rivers of Somalia and of the whole Horn of Africa. Though these rivers have neighboring...
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Map** meteorological drought hazard in the Philippines using SPI and SPEI
Drought is a natural hazard with a severe and long-lasting impact on both human and natural systems. Among different drought categories, assessment...
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Urban Landscape and Flash-Flood Hazard on Alluvial Fans in a Hyper-Arid Zone—The Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba
Overlooking the Red Sea, the desert cities of Eilat (Israel) and Aqaba (Jordan) are located in a strategic, economic, and trade junction. The cities...
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Flood hazard susceptibility assessment in Chiffa wadi watershed and along the first section of Algeria North–South highway using GIS and AHP method
Flood susceptibility map** and assessment are essential to determine adequate protective measures to ensure an area or infrastructure’s safety....
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Assessing losses from multi-hazard coastal events using Poisson regression: empirical evidence from Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR), India
Sundarban Biosphere Reserve (SBR), an ecologically sensitive and dynamic region, is susceptible to cyclones, floods, storm surge and sea level rise....
