Flooding and landslides usually take place in the rainy season, which has a greater effect on the loss of property, structures, and lives of people....

Las poblaciones humanas de todo el mundo son vulnerables a los desastres naturales. Ciertas condiciones - tales como la ubicación geográfica o nivel...

The country risk profiles for floods and earthquakes presented in this publication are based on quantitative risk assessments derived using global...

The dissertation examines how the governance for floods is configured at the national and municipal scales, in a context of weak state capacity. The...

ncreasing intensity and frequency of climate-related disasters such as floods and droughts challenge existing governance models of disaster risk...

This study estimates impacts from and identifies policy responses to extreme climate events, especially the economy wise impacts of abnormal...

The key objectives of this study are to: assess the economic costs of the recent floods on the sugarcane farmers sugar cane production and...

The main objective of this initiative is to improve capacity to predict and address future post-disaster shelter recovery needs and issues as well as...

It doesn’t rain often in the desert, but when it does, the danger can be extreme. A Zurich study reviews what can be learned from devastating floods...