Unraveling the causes and impacts of increasing flood disasters in the kathmandu valley: Lessons from the unprecedented September 2024 floods
December 2025
Understanding the underlying causes of flood disasters is essential not only for developing effective flood management strategies but also for evaluating past policies and mitigation efforts. This study...
A GIS-based flood hazard mapping in the Alsen St./Irma Lee Community Village in the Louisiana state of USA
December 2025
Flooding poses a significant threat to the Alsen St/Irma Lee Community Village in East Baton Rouge Parish, driven by its low-lying terrain, complex hydrological dynamics, and inadequate drainage systems....
Multi-breach GLOF hazard and exposure analysis of Birendra Lake in the Manaslu Region of Nepal
December 2025
Recent climate change has resulted in the shrinkage of glaciers and the expansion of the glacial lakes in the Himalayas, thereby increasing the risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). GLOFs from...
Floods in Ethiopia: A Review
Available online 22 December 2025
Flooding in Ethiopia is projected to intensify under climate change, yet progress in climate adaptation and disaster risk management remains limited. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview...
Trends and Advancements in Disaster Preparedness Research: A Global Bibliometric Analysis (1951-2024)
Available online 19 December 2025
Preparedness is a core concept in disaster research, encompassing proactive actions and strategies to enhance an individual’s, community’s, or organization’s ability to respond to and recover from a...
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Modelling of the Tikip Lake, Sikkim Himalaya, India
Available online 12 December 2025
Glaciers in the Himalaya are experiencing a high rate of melting due to ongoing climate change. The melting waters of the glaciers accumulate in depressions, forming high-volume glacial lakes. Natural...
Residents, Enterprises and Government: An Evolutionary Game Model of Extreme Weather Warning Communication
Available online 9 December 2025
Extreme weather events increasingly threaten communities, necessitating effective collaboration among residents, enterprises, and local government to enhance early warning systems. However, micro-level...
Geospatial System for Wildfire Monitoring and Prediction Using Aerospace Data
Available online 9 December 2025
A unified wildfire early-warning system is assessed, linking Machine Learning (ML) detection with an observation-updated Cellular Automata (CA) spread model, relying only on data available at the time...
Estimation of Ground Motion Characteristics of the September 08, 2023 Morocco Earthquake
Available online 4 December 2025
The Mw 6.8 Morocco earthquake of 8 September 2023 was the country’s most destructive seismic event in the last six decades, causing widespread devastation and over 3,000 casualties across the High Atlas...
A Practical Framework for Rapid Earthquake Damage Estimation through Multi-Vehicle Coordination and Inter-Agency Collaboration: Integration of Genetic Algorithms and RGB Image Analysis
Available online 19 November 2025
Rapid and accurate assessment of building damage following large-scale earthquakes is essential for effective emergency response. This study proposes a practical framework that integrates camera-equipped...
The Dharali Catastrophic Disaster of 05th August 2025: A Wake-Up Call from the Kheer Ganga, NW Himalaya
Available online 5 November 2025
The North-western (NW) Himalaya is highly vulnerable to climate-driven hazards, where glacial retreat, unstable slopes, and extreme rainfall exacerbate disaster risks. On 5 August 2025, a catastrophic...
A Dynamic Cartographic Tool Suite for Coastal Flooding Vulnerability Assessment
Available online 25 October 2025
In this article we propose a generic cartographic toolkit for vulnerability assessment to hazard based on multi-criteria analysis, enabling the most vulnerable areas to be accurately mapped. To achieve...
The Paradigm of Disaster Exposure and All-Cause Hospital Admissions in Rural New South Wales, Australia
Available online 25 October 2025
Climate change-related disasters pose significant challenges to healthcare systems globally. Understanding their impact on hospital utilisation, particularly considering socioeconomic vulnerabilities,...
Does ENSO-driven climate variability increase coastal flooding? Insights from the Brebes coastal area, Indonesia
Available online 21 October 2025
Coastal flooding remains a major challenge in Brebes, Central Java, where aquaculture and low-lying settlements are highly exposed to sea-level variability. While tides and land subsidence are recognized...
Advances in atmospheric, oceanic, and coupled models for meteorological forecasting
Available online 10 October 2025
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) has evolved from atmospheric-only formulations to comprehensive Earth System Models (ESMs), driven by advances in model resolution, physical realism, and computational...
From Ethical Dilemmas to Ethical Cascading Failure in Disaster Evacuation Planning
Available online 9 October 2025
Traditional disaster evacuation planning has long emphasised efficiency, typically by minimising evacuation time or cost. With increasing attention to equity and social sustainability, new conflicts...
A Holistic Geospatial Framework for Assessing Disaster Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh
Available online 3 October 2025
Coastal regions, while highly productive, are increasingly exposed to natural and anthropogenic stressors. Hence, strengthening their resilience is vital for sustainable development. This study evaluates...
Beyond the Evacuation Zone: Agricultural Passes and the Wildfire Crisis in California
Available online 2 October 2025
This study evaluates the Agricultural Pass (Ag Pass) program through a framework linking preparedness infrastructure, adaptive governance, and social capital to agricultural resilience during wildfire...
Machine learning reveals lithology and soil as critical parameters in landslide susceptibility for Petrópolis (Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil)
September 2025
Petrópolis, located in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is frequently impacted by severe landslides, exacerbated by intense rainfall, steep topography, and unregulated urban growth....
Modeling the Atami debris flow using the depth-integrated particle method and GIS: Flow characteristics and future risk assessment
September 2025
The Depth-Integrated Particle Method (DIPM) is a numerical approach for simulating sediment disasters, such as debris flows and mudflows. This study applies DIPM to the 2021 Atami debris flow in Shizuoka...
Quantifying the level of erosion-induced hazards on tidal riverbanks
September 2025
One of the most damaging and costly geoengineering hazards is riverbank erosion. This study aims to comprehensively determining and mapping hazard Levels of the riverbank subjected to erosion, along...
Heat wave adaptation strategies among informal workers in an urban setting: A study in dhaka city, Bangladesh
September 2025
With the increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves globally, studying the adaptation strategies of informal workers, who constitute a significant and vulnerable segment of Dhaka's urban population,...
Early warning systems in climate risk management: Roles and implementations in eradicating barriers and overcoming challenges
September 2025
Early Warning Systems (EWS) are essential tools for alleviating the effects of natural hazards, particularly floods, cyclones, and droughts, by giving early warnings and actionable information. Currently,...
Bagyong Kristine (TS Trami) in bicol, Philippines: Flood risk forecasting, disaster risk preparedness predictions and lived experiences through machine learning (ML), econometrics, and hermeneutic analysis
September 2025
This work was conducted just two days after the onslaught of Bagyong Kristine (TS Trami) in October 2024 that flooded the Bicol Region, Philippines. We combined quantitative approaches (machine learning...
Comprehensive flood vulnerability analysis and mapping for the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia
September 2025
The Awash River Basin is increasingly susceptible to significant flood risks driven by a complex interplay of hydrometeorological and socio-environmental factors, which have detrimental effects on local...