Showing papers in "Environmental Hazards in 2019"

TL;DR: In Australia, the Australian bushfire safety policy does not require mandatory evacuation from bushfire as practiced in North America and other jurisdictions as discussed by the authors, and householders confronted with a bushfire face no evacuation.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impacts of home buyout programs on the permanent relocation of residents away from areas considered to be at risk from future hazards, though few studies have examined the impact of such programs on communities.

TL;DR: The Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework identifies as an indicator of progress the objective of reducing disaster losses as a proportion of global gross domestic product as discussed by the authors, which is the goal of this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors update normalisation of the Insurance Council of Australia's disaster list in the light of debate about the contribution of global warming to the rising cost of natural disasters.

TL;DR: In this article, the implications of contemporary conceptions of distributive justice for post-disaster recovery programs have been examined, and the question asked in this paper is essentially theoretical: what doe...

TL;DR: Unprecedented pace and magnitude of land use/land cover (LULC) change in the Ethiopian highlands is a key problem threatening the natural ecosystem and creates vulnerability to an environme...

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of published flood fatalities in Australia occurring between 1960 and 2015 revealed that 49% of 229 flood fatalities were vehicle related, which is the highest rate of vehicle-related flood fatalities.

TL;DR: In this article, the main purpose of the paper is to develop an optimisation pattern for the process of a preventive evacuation of people from flood-risk areas (at the first sign of a flood), aimed at mitigating...

TL;DR: The authors explored religious perceptions of disasters and their implications for post-disaster processes of religious and cultural change in Samoa, based on ethnographic fieldwork in post-tsunami Samoa.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of family, social support and place attachment during a wildfire evacuation of Indigenous residents in a remote area of the US, using a qualitative community-based research approach.

TL;DR: This study presents scientometric analysis to identify the status quo of research on the management of various disasters and role of ICT in it, and provides extensive insights into growth of publications, citation pattern and their connectedness with other subject disciplines.

TL;DR: In this article, a multinomial logistic regression model is employed to explore the role of livelihood assets in farmers' preferred risk management strategies, and the results find that farmers express higher levels of concern about educational risk, health risk and employment risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the resilience or the ability of the critical sector to recover quickly from the disruptor is evaluated in a disaster such as floods, which can have a drastic impact on interdependent infrastructure and economic sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the analytical and empirical aspects of an integrated vulnerability index (VI) for small raft harbours based on the methodology of the IPCC for coastal vulnerability assessment are presented.

TL;DR: The results indicate a high level of recall of heat-health warnings and awareness about managing extreme heat, and suggest that the warnings may be reinforcing existing protective behaviours more than promoting change.

TL;DR: In this paper, four hypotheses concerning the relationship between climate-related disasters and conflict were tested using archaeological data in a controlled cross-cultural comparison, and the four hypotheses were (1)

TL;DR: A study of 486 adults living in 13 urban residential areas in Australia affected by a range of contaminants found respondents with a disability were significantly more likely to worry about contamination than those without.

TL;DR: In order to achieve the consistency of optimal social supply of rainstorm disaste, the authors in this article proposed a method to reduce the negative effect of rain storm disasters on property safety and life safety in Nanjing.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of climate change on the transmission of malaria in Ethiopia is modeled. But the main objectives of the study were to model the influence on malaria transmissibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the construction of vulnerability to natural hazards in the Dieng Plateau of Central Java, Indonesia, and describe the vulnerability of the dieng plateau to earthquakes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature on the qualities of the national president in the field of Korean disaster management by comparing current narrow disaster management and future-oriented inclusi...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide suggestions for how to build an effective and efficient disaster relief system in China, where natural disasters have serious negative consequences for China and it is necessary to build a disaster relief systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the vulnerability of utility infrastructure as a result of extreme weather and extreme weather events is discussed, focusing on the vulnerability to power outages caused by major storms in the United States in 2011 and 2012.

TL;DR: Increasing urbanization and industrial development upstream of the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam (MRD) including the construction of a series of dams for hydroelectricity generation is changing the landscape as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This application includes a warning and guidance system, a 3D scenario game to prepare its users for disasters, an interactive survival toolkit selection, an SMS rescue feature and a mass notification system via the web.

TL;DR: The finding suggests that using a problem-solving scenario approach, compared with merely offering potential consequences of risks is more effective in stimulating appropriate responses to prevent casualty for information users.