Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of forest fires: A call for multilateral cooperation and management interventions
June 2023
Fire is one of the dominant disturbances in forests that widely impacts the ecology, environment, and socioeconomics of nations across the globe. In view of setting priorities of nations for combating...
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A review of socio-economic vulnerability: The emergence of its theoretical concepts, models and methodologies
September 2023
The concept of vulnerability overarches as a multidisciplinary subject. The umbrella term is widely used in several disciplines namely sociology, public health, geography, and disaster studies. Broadly,...
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Application of ChatGPT in natural disaster prevention and reduction
September 2023
Improving disaster prevention, reduction, and emergency response capabilities is crucial in a country prone to frequent natural disasters. Since the release of ChatGPT, it has garnered widespread attention...
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Earthquake-induced landslides susceptibility assessment: A review of the state-of-the-art
September 2022
Earthquake-induced landslides (EQL) can take a heavy toll on people's life and properties, thus attracting extensive attention of the geosciences community. Carrying out earthquake-induced landslide...
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Floods in Pakistan: A state-of-the-art review
September 2023
Floods inflict devastating impacts worldwide. The frequency and severity of floods have notably increased as a result of climate change. Pakistan, in particular, has experienced two of the most catastrophic...
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Community resilience to natural disasters: A systemic review of contemporary methods and theories
September 2023
Due to global climate change, community resilience to natural disasters has become a high priority in environmental research. Academicians and practitioners from different disciplines and organizations...
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GIS-based machine learning algorithm for flood susceptibility analysis in the Pagla river basin, Eastern India
September 2023
The unique characteristics of drainage conditions in the Pagla river basin cause flooding and harm the socioeconomic environment. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the comparative utility...
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Landslide susceptibility and risk analysis in Benighat Rural Municipality, Dhading, Nepal
June 2023
The complex geology and undulating terrain made Nepal vulnerable to natural disasters like landslides. Benighat-Rorang Rural Municipality (RM), in the Dhading district of Nepal's Bagmati province, has...
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Human factors vs climate change; experts’ view of drivers of flooding in Nigeria
June 2023
Flooding disasters are occurring more frequently across the globe. Resilience capacity also differs with developing countries less able to withstand the devastating impacts of flooding. The level and...
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Evaluation of post extreme floods in high mountain region: A case study of the Melamchi flood 2021 at the Koshi River Basin in Nepal
September 2023
Extreme precipitation events and associated hazards are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. On June 2021, a devastating flash flood occurred in the Melamchi River in Nepal causing...
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Flood risk assessment of the population in Afghanistan: A spatial analysis of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability
Available online 13 September 2023
Flooding is a recurrent and severe natural hazard in Afghanistan, exacerbated by climate change, and poses significant threats to human lives and livelihoods. The country's socioeconomic vulnerabilities...
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Climate change, multi-hazards and society: An empirical study on the coastal community of Indian Sundarban
June 2022
Effective mitigation and adaptation methods are critical for addressing multi-hazards in various parts of the world as a result of changing climate occurrences. Basically, coastal areas around the world...
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Effect of soil structure interaction on the dynamic response of reinforced concrete structures
December 2022
During severe seismic events, the dynamic response of the structure is affected not only by the behavior of the superstructure but also by the nature and behavior of the soil present in and around the...
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GIS – based flood susceptibility mapping using frequency ratio and information value models in upper Abay river basin, Ethiopia
June 2023
In this study, flood susceptibility mapping was carried out for Chemoga watershed upper Abay River basin, Ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to identify the flood susceptibility areas using...
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Spatio-temporal analysis of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from Sentinel-5P imageries using Google Earth Engine changes during the COVID-19 social restriction policy in jakarta
June 2023
The number of cases due to COVID-19 is increasing, especially in Jakarta, requiring the government to establish a policy of social restrictions. The policy impacting the mobility of people using motor...
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The experiences of the landslide survivors from Kodagu District, India: Need for community-engaged village/ward level micro disaster management planning
September 2023
Kodagu district in India had catastrophic landslides in 2018, the rarest occurrence known to people until 2018. It has become an annual affair radiated to other districts of the Western Ghats range...
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MAT.TRIGRS (V1.0): A new open-source tool for predicting spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall-induced landslides
December 2021
In this work, a new TRIGRS (Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-Based Regional Slope-Stability) model based on Matlab® is proposed, named MAT.TRIGRS (V1.0), which can be applied to research of...
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Object detection in high resolution optical image based on deep learning technique
December 2022
Deep learning-based object detection in high resolution optical imagery is an active research frontier. Dataset for object detection is fundamentally important to drive deep learning models. Compared...
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A review on the extreme rainfall studies in India
Available online 28 August 2023
Climate vulnerability in the Indian region becomes a major concern due to the frequent hydro-meteorological extreme events throughout the year. The number of extreme rainfall events (ERE) associated...
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Chamoli flash floods of 7th February 2021 and recent deformation: A PSInSAR and deep learning neural network (DLNN) based perspective
June 2023
The February 7, 2021, Joshimath flood scenario was one such event that caused widespread damage and led to complete washout of the many hydroelectric power projects located on the course of Dhauliganga...
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Probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment of Mizoram, North East India
September 2023
This paper presents seismic hazard and risk assessment for the state of Mizoram based on a classical probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and event-based probabilistic seismic risk analysis. For the...
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Evidence-based disaster risk assessment in Southeast Asian countries
June 2023
This paper aims to provide an overview of the risks and trends of natural disasters in Southeast Asian countries and discuss necessary future countermeasures. Quantitative analysis of natural disasters...
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Geoinformatics-based investigation of slope failure and landslide damming of Chenab River, Lahaul-Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India
June 2023
A huge landslide blocked the flow of the Chenab River near Nalda village on the morning of 13th August 2021 in the Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, which led to the flooding of several villages...
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Are flood events really increasing? A case study of Krishna River Basin, India
September 2023
There is a heightened sensitivity about the risks posed by the prospect of climate change as deduced from the results of the global-regional climate models. Notwithstanding the moderating, albeit feebly...
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Landslide susceptibility evaluation and interpretability analysis of typical loess areas based on deep learning
June 2023
Loess areas have a unique geological environment, and geological disasters occur there frequently. In this work, the typical loess area Lvliang was used as the study area. Using the historical landslide...
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