decision making in disaster risk reduction planning and risk governance. To quantify regional social vulnerability to natural …

event-driven conditional distribution of earthquake risk is used to prioritize investment decisions for earthquake hazard … mitigation. Simulation of the damages in the scenario showed a statistically significant risk concentration in census tracts with …

the financial risk associated with flood events in rural Pakistan. Moreover, the factors influencing rural households … insurance is thought to be a viable alternative to mitigate the financial risk associated with the catastrophic events like the … perceived risk of flooding but by their financial position. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 …

US coastal cities are regularly subjected to destruction by tropical cyclones. The risk of tropical cyclone winds … advocate for annual and decadal hurricane risk to include: (1) the likelihood of temporal clusters of extreme hurricanes along …

The present article explores the dynamics of disaster-induced risk resulted from tropical Cyclone Aila that struck … destroying 77,000 acres of farmland. This study assesses disaster risk by using basic pseudo-equation expressed as Risk … disaster risk. Following stratified purposive sampling techniques, a total of fourteen focus group discussions were conducted …

The main purpose of this work is to propose novel computational procedures for calculating the risk of corrosion of …. Using the risk curve of corrosion of reinforcing steel bars, building designers can set an allowable reliability to discuss … concrete cover, the concrete mix and surface coatings should be used as barriers to mitigate the corrosion risk for reinforcing …

management of risk. This implies that pre-industrial societies were somehow fundamentally different. In this paper, we challenge … individual outlooks on risk, emphasising the diversity of popular belief and the central importance of Christianity in framing …

wider context not only of vulnerability but also of resilience and risk research. It is demonstrated that ‘adaptation’ and …