Extreme gradient boosting (Xgboost) model to predict the groundwater levels in Selangor Malaysia

As societies evolve, often the most appropriate response to the hazard must also evolve. However, such shifts in appropriate response to a hazard, whether at the individual or at the societal level, are rarely straightforward: Closing the gap between desired practice and current practice requires effective communication. Although there is a significant literature on how to encourage adaptation before an event and how to communicate during an event, there is less work tying the two together or on how to communicate shifts in larger scale societal response to a natural hazard. In this article, we bring together the best practices and theoretical literature from risk communication and crisis communication and empirical literature on wildfire communication to derive the key characteristics associated with best communication practices. We then use this framework on three case studies of wildfires in California, Montana, and Wyoming, each of which used a different strategy for managing the fire, to understand whether approaching communication more holistically can lead to more desired natural hazard management outcomes. Our working hypothesis was as follows: effective communication before and during a fire would be associated with acceptance of more flexible fire management strategies. The findings indicate how a type of desired management change (more flexible fire management) is associated with more effective communication practices before and during the event.

Best Practices in Risk and Crisis Communication: Implications for Natural Hazards Management

Rapid development of agriculture mechanization and the agro–industry in China (considered as a large agricultural country) has led to a substantial increase in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Majority of existing studies usually explore the driving forces of the sector's CO2 emissions using the averaging method. However, data distribution of economic variables is often non–normal, with the tail having hidden important information. According to the average annual CO2 emissions, this paper divides China's 30 provinces into six quantile grades, and uses the quantile regression method to investigate the driving forces of CO2 emissions under high, medium, and low emission levels. The results show that the effects of economic growth on CO2 emissions in the upper 90th and 75th–90th quantile provinces are higher than in the 50th–75th, 25th–50th, 10th–25th and lower 10th quantile provinces due to the differences in fixed–asset investment and agricultural processing. The impact of energy efficiency in the upper 90th, 75th–90th, and 50th–75th quantile provinces are stronger than those in the 25th–50th, 10th–25th, and lower 10th quantile provinces because of the huge difference in R&D funding and R&D personnel investments. The effect of urbanization in the higher 90th quantile provinces is higher than in the other quantile provinces, owing to the differences in the level of agricultural mechanization and human capital accumulation. Similarly, financial capacity has the largest impact on CO2 emissions in the upper 90th quantile provinces in all quantile provinces. However, the impact of industrialization in the upper 90th quantile provinces is lower than in other quantile provinces. Thus, the heterogeneous effects of the driving forces should be taken into consideration when discussing CO2 emissions reduction in China's agriculture sector.

Factors affecting CO2 emissions in China's agriculture sector: A quantile regression

Power electronics contribution to renewable energy conversion addressing emission reduction: Applications, issues, and recommendations

Exploring the direct rebound effect of residential electricity consumption: An empirical study in China

Exploring utility organization electricity generation, residential electricity consumption, and energy efficiency: A climatic approach

A temporal and spatial analysis of climate change, weather events, and tourism businesses

The Camping Climate Index (CCI): The development, validation, and application of a camping-sector tourism climate index

Water crisis, drought, and climate change in the southeast United States

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Song Feng

Papers

Exploring utility organization electricity generation, residential electricity consumption, and energy efficiency: A climatic approach

A temporal and spatial analysis of climate change, weather events, and tourism businesses

The Camping Climate Index (CCI): The development, validation, and application of a camping-sector tourism climate index

Water crisis, drought, and climate change in the southeast United States

Camping climate resources: the camping climate index in the United States