Disaster risk and subsequent loss and damage in Asia are increasing at an alarming rate, threatening socioeconomic … and systemic investments that build community resilience. Our analysis of community flood resilience data finds … deficiencies and potential for substantial improvements in community flood resilience investment across the region, with different …

Disaster risk and subsequent loss and damage in Asia are increasing at an alarming rate, threatening socioeconomic … and systemic investments that build community resilience. Our analysis of community flood resilience data finds … deficiencies and potential for substantial improvements in community flood resilience investment across the region, with different …

). The 6C-4R framework is linked to the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) that rewards … communities for adopting flood risk reduction activities using illustrative examples of resilience strategies adopted by …. We conclude the paper with a case study of Cedar Rapids, Iowa that joined the CRS in 2010 following a severe flood in …

Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper … forest area mitigates the possibility of flood occurrence even after controlling for socioeconomic and meteorological … variables and time-invariant individual effects. Second, broadleaf trees and mixed-tree forests have a flood mitigation effect …

benefits of the Greenway in terms of avoided flood damages are greater in both types of climate change scenarios. However, the …

human society is part of the natural environment it is therefore exposed and susceptible to flood hazard. Floods are seen as … society constantly changes the land use and this appears to be one of the factors for an increase in flood risk. Ecosystem …-based approach for flood risk management is a fast growing notion in the field of disaster risk reduction. During the last decade …