Showing papers in "Environmental Hazards in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework called WISC is presented, which relates the two concepts of community and infrastructure, broadly defined, to the four constructs it is named after, namely well-being, identity, services, and capitals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework that integrates vulnerability and resilience in order to advance adaptation thinking, planning, and implementation, and apply findings on unequal social vulnerability to inform adaptation options that increase resilience in coastal cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a gender analysis of Pakistan's early warning system for river floods is performed to highlight gendered and classed vulnerabilities to flood in the Lai basin passing through the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

TL;DR: The Open Source Vulnerability Index (OS-VI) as discussed by the authors was developed at the national level, with data for all proxy indicators available across the entirety of England, including flood risk, loss of capabilities, and importance of key services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the difficulties and limitations faced during the participatory process and challenges the capacity of participatory research, when carried out in an academic context, to generate sustainable solutions that match with local communities' needs.

TL;DR: Based on the results of questionnaires issued to 202 local residents in the Mount Yulong Snow region, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, the authors analyzes mountain residents' perspectives on climate change and its impacts, their strategies to adapt to climate change impacts, including their willingness or otherwise to become ecological migrants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of fieldwork on remote islands in Fiji and Tonga in the South Pacific, documenting natural warning signs on islands in two different countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a psychographic profiling approach for archetypes of pet-owner relationship characteristics is proposed as a means of describing risk-preparedness foci and risk propensities within disaster contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the temporal and spatial variability and change in rainfall across southeastern Mexico and the mechanisms by which smallholder farmers adapt to this variability, especially droughts Members of 150 households in 10 communities were interviewed to investigate adaptation strategies among swidden maize smallholders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider climate change from a hazard to economic development and public security perspective, and integrate climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies, building upon resilience concept as a unique methodological basis and civil protection measures as a common practice.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship among climate change beliefs, environmental beliefs, and hazard mitigation actions in the context of wildfire, a natural hazard projected to be intensified by climate change, and found a statistically significant positive relationship between level of wildfire risk mitigation and being a climate denier.

TL;DR: The SD model demonstrated that it was possible to predict the optimum number of medical staff and that medical staff need to be trained to improve their treatment abilities and that search and rescue workers should also assist in restoring road transport during any medical relief activities in the Longmen Shan fault area.

TL;DR: In this article, the status of emergency response team (ERT) in a refinery was examined through trust and coordination relationships using social network analysis (SNA) indicators including density, degree, reciprocity and transitivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a measurement and evaluation approach for community resilience to flood disasters using a set of biophysical and socioeconomic indices, and applied this approach in selected barangays in the Santa Rosa-Silang subwatershed in the Laguna Lake region of the Philippines.

TL;DR: In this paper, a discursive analysis of the information conveyed by the media in hydrological years 2004-2005 and 2011-2012, through the application of the software Atlas.ti.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how and if the post-disaster distribution of housing assistance in two cities of Bam, in Iran, and Bhuj, in India, fulfilled the broad aim of enabling the stricken population to achieve housing recovery.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is proposed in which community and scientific knowledge can be integrated into the formal development approval process at the national level for risk-sensitive development planning in Jamaica.

TL;DR: The study finds that it is necessary for Korea to develop and adopt alternatives for a software-oriented approach following measures such as supporting psychological treatment, addressing the unequal treatment of minorities, and advocating the importance of interdisciplinary study.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used geoinformatics to determine the coastal areas that are under an oil spill/fire/explosion risk in the Istanbul Strait by using remote sensing technology, providing relatively quick and low-cost analysis of large areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated farmers' crop adaptation processes in response to three recent devastating floods in Islampur, a case-study area in rural Bangladesh, and concluded that vulnerable farmers are highly resilient and, with appropriate support, their adjustments can be sustainable.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of communication in hazard zone planning in the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol points out pitfalls and challenges in an advanced, spatial planning scheme based on the concept of social learning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the social dynamics of house damage classification in the wake of the 2006 Central Java earthquake, and explore relations between citizens and the state during post-disaster house reconstruction.