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A comparison of TRMM to other basin-scale estimates of rainfall during the 1999 Hurricane Floyd flood

Curtis, Scott; Crawford, Thomas; Lecce, Scott - In: Natural Hazards 43 (2007) 2, pp. 187-198

The volumetric rainfall attributed to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 was computed for the bulk of the Tar, Neuse, and Cape Fear River Basins in eastern North Carolina, USA from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) research product, and compared...

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Seasonal Forecasting for Climate Hazards: Prospects and Responses

Murphy, Sarah; Washington, Richard; Downing, Thomas; … - In: Natural Hazards 23 (2001) 2, pp. 171-196

One of the most promising developments for early warning of climate hazards is seasonal climate forecasting. Already forecasts are operational in many parts of the tropics and sub-tropics, particularly for droughts and floods associated with ENSO events. Prospects for further development of...

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Risk assessment of the city water resources system based on Pansystems Observation-Control Model of Periphery

Fu, Qiang; Gong, Fanli; Jiang, Qiuxiang; Li, Tianxiao; … - In: Natural Hazards 71 (2014) 3, pp. 1899-1912

Study on risk assessment of water resources system is the key to ensure the water resources security and its sustainable utilization. Under the principles of sustainable utilization of water resources, with the thinking of the risk, the Pansystems Observation-Control Model of Periphery is...

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Vulnerability, resilience and development discourses in context of climate change

Cannon, Terry; Müller-Mahn, Detlef - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 621-635

perspectives, from vulnerability studies to resilience thinking. However, the paper argues, this shift is problematic for the …

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Understanding multiple thresholds of coupled social–ecological systems exposed to natural hazards as external shocks

Renaud, Fabrice; Birkmann, Jörn; Damm, Marion; … - In: Natural Hazards 55 (2010) 3, pp. 749-763

. Increasing the resilience and reducing the vulnerability of social–ecological systems (SES) so that they can withstand these …

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Resilience to natural hazards: a geographic perspective

Zhou, Hongjian; Jing’ai Wang; Wan, Jinhong; Jia, Huicong - In: Natural Hazards 53 (2010) 1, pp. 21-41

Resilience is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of natural disaster systems. This article … presents the origin of resilience and provides an overview of its development to date, which draws on the wide literature on … disaster resilience of “Loss–Response” of Location (DRLRL) was created and disaster resilience was defined from three …

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Building resilience to natural hazards in Indonesia: progress and challenges in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action

Djalante, Riyanti; Thomalla, Frank; Sinapoy, Muhammad; … - In: Natural Hazards 62 (2012) 3, pp. 779-803

–2015: ‘Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities’, in order to enable a more systematic planning, implementation and …, challenges and emerging issues in building resilience to natural hazards. The study is undertaken through literature reviews and … indicate that the building disaster resilience in Indonesia has been, to a large extent, driven by the existence of the …

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Quantifying cascading effects triggered by disrupted transportation due to the Great 2008 Chinese Ice Storm: implications for disaster risk management

Xie, Wei; Li, Ning; Li, Chunhua; Wu, Ji-dong; Hu, Aijun; … - In: Natural Hazards 70 (2014) 1, pp. 337-352

-scale disasters induce more strong cascading effects than minor ones. Post-disaster system resilience effectively stops the spread of … cascading effects. When the economic system resilience (e.g., improving the substitution between road transportation and other … cascading effects can be reduced by approximately 60 %. Overall, improving post-disaster system resilience is a highly efficient …

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People and community as constituent parts of hazards: the significance of societal dimensions in hazards analysis

Haque, C.; Etkin, David - In: Natural Hazards 41 (2007) 2, pp. 271-282

loss. Though the vulnerability/resilience paradigm has largely replaced the hazards paradigm within the social sciences and …

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An index of relative displacement risk to hurricanes

Esnard, Ann-Margaret; Sapat, Alka; Mitsova, Diana - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 2, pp. 833-859

Indicator and index-building activities have become commonplace for assessing and estimating social, environmental, and economic strengths and vulnerabilities of communities, regions and even countries. In the context of disasters, much of the empirical research has focused on identifying places...

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