Compounding impacts of hazard exposures on mental health in Houston,TX

Natural Hazards - Natural and anthropogenic hazards are increasingly becoming commonplace due to climate change and population pressures. The state of Texas is particularly vulnerable to these...     

Flood anticipation,reality, and uncertainty,the 2019 flood in Khuzestan,Iran

Natural Hazards - Despite the application of various methods to calculate uncertainty in flood vulnerability assessments, the challenge of uncertainty remains. The main purpose of this study was to...     

Expansion of a glacial lake,Tsho Chubda,Chamkhar Chu Basin,Hindukush Himalaya,Bhutan

Natural Hazards - A wide range of methods for detection of glacial lakes and their expansions using multi-temporal remote sensing images have been employed in the past. This paper presents a...     

Soil erosion estimation of Bhandara region of Maharashtra,India, by integrated use of RUSLE,remote sensing,and GIS

Natural Hazards - The agricultural land of the whole world is deteriorating due to the loss of top fertile soil reducing agricultural productivity and groundwater availability. Mainly, natural...     

A comprehensive and quantitative assessment of Raunthi Gad flash flood,Rishi Ganga catchment,central Himalaya,Uttarakhand, India

Natural Hazards - Drought severity is increasing in Southern Africa which is affecting rain-fed agriculture, the main source of livelihood in most countries in this region. The study assessed the...     

Corporate social responsibility,green credit,and corporate performance: an empirical analysis based on the mining,power, and steel industries of China

Natural Hazards - From the perspective of corporate social responsibility and environmental risk management, green credit will have an important impact on corporate performance. The influence of...     

Geo-spatial assessment of community vulnerability to flood along the Ravi River,Ravi Town,Lahore, Pakistan

Natural Hazards - Pakistan is exposed to hydro-meteorological and geological hazards. Flood is one of the hydro-meteorological hazards, and so far 25 major floods have occurred in Indus River...     

Correction to: The catastrophic landside in Maoxian County,Sichuan, SW China,on June 24, 2017

Natural Hazards - Due to an oversight, four references were cited incorrectly in the reference list of the original publication as well as in the text of the publication. The first names were used...     

Spatial comparisons in wetland loss,mitigation, and flood hazards among watersheds in the lower St. Johns River basin,northeastern Florida,USA

Natural Hazards - The objective of this research is to establish a model that characterizes integrated humanitarian operations management in response to flood disasters, during which an optimal...     

Assessment of drought hazard,exposure, vulnerability,and risk for rice cultivation in the Mun River Basin in Thailand

Natural Hazards - When assessing drought risk, most studies focus on hazard and vulnerability, paying less attention to exposure. Here, we propose a comprehensive drought risk assessment scheme...     

Seismic and flood structural risk in Motozintla,Chiapas, Mexico

Natural Hazards - Using the methodology developed by the Mexican National Disaster Prevention Centre (CENAPRED), we assessed the housing’s structural risk to earthquakes and floods of the...     

The Pterosaur Collection at the Natural History Museum,London, UK: an Overview and List of Specimens,with Description of Recent Curatorial Developments

The pterosaur collection at the Natural History Museum is of great historical importance. Most of the material is figured or cited, and several specimens are types or casts of types. Pterosaurs from UK localities are well represented, but foreign material is also present as original specimens and as high quality casts. The entire collection has been recorded in a database and curatorial improvements have been made, which has improved physical and virtual access to the collection. Although many of the specimens were collected as long ago as the early 1800s, they are still useful today. A full list of Natural History Museum pterosaur specimens is published, for the first time since 1888.     

Bonding,bridging, and linking: photovoice for resilience through social capital

Natural Hazards - This study assesses how well government and nongovernmental organizations and others performed during emergency relief operations in Nepal after the country was struck by a...     

Scale implications and evolution of a social vulnerability index in Atlanta,Georgia, USA

Natural Hazards - The implications of hazards on populations are accentuated or alleviated by the nature of social systems, yet the multi-scalar variations of socioeconomic and demographic...     

Bouldery deposits along the Kherlen fault,Central Khentey,Mongolia: implications for paleoseismology

Natural Hazards - The assumed Jargalant rockslide is located in Khentey Upland of Mongolia, an area undergoing active tectonic deformation and seismogenic activity but where geomorphic research...     

Response of the Laprak,Nepal, landslide to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake

Natural Hazards - Coseismic displacements estimated from comparison before-and-after satellite images suggest that the large and intermittently active landslide upon which the village of Laprak,...     

Seismic Hazard Assessment of Dhanbad City,India, by deterministic approach

Natural Hazards - Dhanbad is the largest producer of coal in the state of Jharkhand, India, and hence, it is one of the most important cities in the country. Considering the present-day importance...     

Correction to: Evaluation of a synthetic rainfall model,P-CLIPER,for use in coastal flood modeling

Natural Hazards - Equation 3 was found to have a typographical error that produced negative rainfall rates.     

Monitoring of late-season agricultural drought in cotton-growing districts of Andhra Pradesh state,India, using vegetation,water and soil moisture indices

Natural Hazards - Persistent soil moisture deficits during flowering and yield formation stage are referred to as late-season agricultural drought. This study aims to assess late-season...     

Urban flood hazard mapping using machine learning models: GARP,RF, MaxEnt and NB

Natural Hazards - Rapid urban development, increasing impermeable surfaces, poor drainage system and changes in extreme precipitations are the most important factors that nowadays lead to increased...