Floods in Pakistan: A state-of-the-art review
September 2023
Floods inflict devastating impacts worldwide. The frequency and severity of floods have notably increased as a result of climate change. Pakistan, in particular, has experienced two of the most catastrophic...
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Disaster, risk and crises in tourism and hospitality field: A pathway toward tourism and hospitality management framework for resilience and recovery process
Available online 19 June 2024
This study aims to review the documents in disasters, risk and crises to produce a generic model for developing a holistic framework in the tourism and hospitality industry. This study uses bibliometric...
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Irshalwadi landslide in Western Ghats of India: Observations from precursory slope movement, rainfall and soil moisture
Available online 6 January 2024
The Western Ghats of India, a UNESCO world heritage site, is gradually becoming a hotspot for catastrophic landslides. On July 19, 2023, the entire Irshalwadi village in the Raigad district of Maharashtra,...
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A review on the extreme rainfall studies in India
September 2024
Climate vulnerability in the Indian region becomes a major concern due to the frequent hydro-meteorological extreme events throughout the year. The number of extreme rainfall events (ERE) associated...
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A review of socio-economic vulnerability: The emergence of its theoretical concepts, models and methodologies
September 2023
The concept of vulnerability overarches as a multidisciplinary subject. The umbrella term is widely used in several disciplines namely sociology, public health, geography, and disaster studies. Broadly,...
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Flood prediction with time series data mining: Systematic review
June 2024
The global community is continuously working to minimize the impact of disasters through various actions, including earth surveying. For example, flood-prone areas must be identified appropriately,...
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Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of forest fires: A call for multilateral cooperation and management interventions
June 2023
Fire is one of the dominant disturbances in forests that widely impacts the ecology, environment, and socioeconomics of nations across the globe. In view of setting priorities of nations for combating...
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Community resilience to natural disasters: A systemic review of contemporary methods and theories
September 2023
Due to global climate change, community resilience to natural disasters has become a high priority in environmental research. Academicians and practitioners from different disciplines and organizations...
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The experiences of the landslide survivors from Kodagu District, India: Need for community-engaged village/ward level micro disaster management planning
September 2023
Kodagu district in India had catastrophic landslides in 2018, the rarest occurrence known to people until 2018. It has become an annual affair radiated to other districts of the Western Ghats range...
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Characteristics of Western Disturbance intensification and associated induced circulations over the Indian Region
September 2024
Western Disturbances (WD) are significantly important weather systems causing precipitation in the Western Himalayan region during Indian Winter months. WDs have two major components-the eastward propagating...
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Landslide detection based on deep learning and remote sensing imagery: A case study in Linzhi City
Available online 4 July 2024
Landslides result in serious damage to economic and land resources. Automated landslide detection over a wide area for the study and prevention of geohazards is important. Linzhi is located in the southeastern...
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Earthquake-induced landslides susceptibility assessment: A review of the state-of-the-art
September 2022
Earthquake-induced landslides (EQL) can take a heavy toll on people's life and properties, thus attracting extensive attention of the geosciences community. Carrying out earthquake-induced landslide...
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Flood risk mapping of the flood-prone Rangpur division of Bangladesh using remote sensing and multi-criteria analysis
March 2024
Identification of potential flood risk areas is crucial to reduce flood damage for the frequently flooded and low-lying South Asian developing countries. The present study has prepared district-level...
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Evidence-based disaster risk assessment in Southeast Asian countries
June 2023
This paper aims to provide an overview of the risks and trends of natural disasters in Southeast Asian countries and discuss necessary future countermeasures. Quantitative analysis of natural disasters...
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Application of ChatGPT in natural disaster prevention and reduction
September 2023
Improving disaster prevention, reduction, and emergency response capabilities is crucial in a country prone to frequent natural disasters. Since the release of ChatGPT, it has garnered widespread attention...
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Tunnelling-induced ground surface settlement: A comprehensive review with particular attention to artificial intelligence technologies
March 2024
Shallow tunnels in urban areas are close to adjacent buildings and municipal pipelines. Ground surface settlement (GSS) due to tunnelling can cause damage to those infrastructures surrounded. Many methods...
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Effects of microplastics on soil physical, chemical and biological properties
Available online 28 February 2024
Pollution from microplastics (MPs) is recognized as a significant new global change factor that may have an impact on ecosystem services and functions. Although it is known that soil ecosystems, especially...
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Forest fire estimation and risk prediction using multispectral satellite images: Case study
June 2024
Forest fires are increasing in terms of number, size, and extent which have a growing influence on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The economy and ecology of Northeast India...
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Remote sensing through the fog of war: Infrastructure damage and environmental change during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict revealed by open-access data
March 2024
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict spawned a high-intensity war that shattered decades of peace in Europe. The use of drones and social media elevates open-source intelligence as a critical strategic asset....
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Assessment of Rainfall Variability over Karnataka state in India
June 2024
Karnataka state situated in the southern part of India is surrounded by a long coast line and western ghat mountain regions on the western side. The rainfall distribution shows a large variability in...
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Risk analysis of road networks under the influence of landslides by considering landslide susceptibility and road vulnerability: A case study
September 2024
Landslides are the most common natural hazards and can cause casualties and damage forests, roads, water conservancy, hydropower, and other infrastructure. Road networks are essential components of...
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GIS-based machine learning algorithm for flood susceptibility analysis in the Pagla river basin, Eastern India
September 2023
The unique characteristics of drainage conditions in the Pagla river basin cause flooding and harm the socioeconomic environment. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the comparative utility...
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The role of large language models (AI chatbots) in fire engineering: An examination of technical questions against domain knowledge
Available online 18 June 2024
This communication presents a short review of chatbot technology and preliminary findings from comparing two recent chatbots, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, in the context of fire engineering by...
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Are flood events really increasing? A case study of Krishna River Basin, India
September 2023
There is a heightened sensitivity about the risks posed by the prospect of climate change as deduced from the results of the global-regional climate models. Notwithstanding the moderating, albeit feebly...
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