vulnerable, with the countries of the Eastern Caribbean standing out as among the most disaster-prone in the world. Natural …

analysis; providing trainings to municipal counterparts; implementation of disaster surveys; conducting hazard mapping by using … geographic information system (GIS) tool and drafting DRAM document for retrofitting MDP and UDP. The project implications of … disasters to urban and rural areas are new urban developments, protection of agriculture land from impact of disasters: flooding …

Natural disaster risk is emerging as an increasingly important constraint on economic development and poverty reduction …. This paper first sets out the key stylized facts in the area-that the costs of disaster have been increasing, seem set to … dealing with disaster risk. Key sources of market failure include the difficulty of risk spreading and, perhaps even more …

. Specific objective of the research is to build up a prototype of decision support system (DSS) including a general valuation … subsequent generalisation at city level. The proposed prototype structure is based upon powerful GIS tools, which coordinate …

Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster … local wisdom, knowledge along with modern tools and techniques can give rid from disaster worst situation and can reduce …

Recently, flood damage by frequent localized downpours in cities is on the increase on account of abnormal climate … phenomena and the growth of impermeable areas due to urbanization. This study suggests a method to estimate real-time flood risk …-time accumulated rainfall, the flooding history, rainfall range causing flooding from previous rainfall information and frequency …