Legal Vacuums: The Challenge of Protection for Climate Refugees by Ahmad Sabirin, Anandayu Pavita Bayuaji, Dinda Keumala

“…Climate change has triggered massive migrations known as climate refugees, individuals who have been forced to leave their homes due to natural disasters and deteriorating environmental conditions. …”
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Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Forest Management for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies by Mokhamad Asyief Khasan Budiman, Hiroki Oue

“… Frequent natural disasters and extreme weather increase the vulnerability to climate change in rural communities living near forests. …”
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Energy Transition – China-Brazil Partnership to Provide Nature-Based Solutions by Danielle M.T. Denny, Olivia Bulla, J. Renato Peneluppi Jr

“…Intact ecosystems store carbon dioxide, secure food and water supplies and protect against natural disasters. Nature-based solutions (NBS) can create jobs and contribute to economic and social development. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATION OF PANDEMIC EPISTEMOLOGY by Imam Wahyudi, Rangga Kala Mahaswa

“…This article contains two common perspectives on pandemics: naturalistic perspective, which views pandemics either as individual microscopic entities or as a life process; and socio-constructivist, which views pandemics as non-natural disasters and public discourse consensus. The second view is getting more public attention because of its closeness to sociological experiences amid information uncertainty, which formed from the prevalence of disinformation, fake news, knowledge vulnerabilities, and society’s digital-virtual freedom. …”
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Mudanças climáticas e impactos sócio-territoriais dos desastres glaciais na Cordilheira Branca, Peru by Anderson Ribeiro de Figueiredo, Jefferson Cardia Simões, Álvaro Luiz Heidrich, Rualdo Menegat

“…This article discusses the history of natural disasters in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, during the 1970–2011 period. …”
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Machine learning for predicting earthquake magnitudes in the Central Himalaya by Ram Krishna Tiwari, Rudra Prasad Poudel, Harihar Paudyal

“… Human intervention cannot halt natural disasters like earthquakes, but machine learning application expertise can be utilized to detect patterns in data and increase understanding and predictive power. …”
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Cell on Wheels-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System for Providing Wireless Coverage in Emergency Situations by Hazim Shakhatreh, Khaled Hayajneh, Khaled Bani-Hani, Ahmad Sawalmeh, Muhammad Anan

“…Due to natural disasters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as aerial wireless base stations when conventional cellular networks are out of service. …”
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Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrants and Refugees by Subhash Kumar Baitha, Rinkal Tyagi, Souvik Chatterjee

“…According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 82.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes by the end of 2020, either as internally displaced persons (IDPs) or as refugees, as a result of violent conflict, persecution, famine, or natural disasters. Even in normal times, the lives of refugees and migrants are fraught with difficulties, but in the midst of an  pandemic like Covid-19, this problem has taken on new dimensions. …”
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Inhabiting territories at risk: Spatial appropriations and symbolic disputes in two peripheral neighborhoods of Quito by Alfredo Santillán, Elisa Puga-Cevallos

“…Through anthropology, the notion of culture has been introduced into the study of risks and natural disasters in order to understand the production of meaning, a contribution that goes beyond the positions of physical and probabilistic sciences. …”
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A New Model of Emergency Supply Management for Swift Transition from Peacetime to Emergency Considering Demand Urgency and Supplier Evaluation by Jiaqi Fang, Lvjiangnan Ye, Wenli Zhou, Lihui Xiong

“…In recent years, the increasing complexity of natural disasters has highlighted the limitations of existing emergency material assistance systems. …”
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New challenges for banking, financial services and insurance by Radić Nikola

“…The crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic shows investors, policy makers and the general public that natural disasters can cause economic damage on an unprecedented scale. …”
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Identifying Key Nodes and Enhancing Resilience in Grain Supply Chains Under Drought Conditions by Shuiwang Zhang, Chuansheng Zhou

“…Grain supply chains remain stable in the face of natural disasters, and the resilience of the grain supply chain plays an important role. …”
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Landslide susceptibility assessment in scarce-data regions using remote sensing data by Edier Vicente Aristizábal-Giraldo, Diana Ruiz-Vásquez

“… Landslides triggered by rainfall are among the most frequent causes of natural disasters in mountainous terrains. However, landslide susceptibility assessments are often limited due to the scarcity of reliable observations. …”
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Machine learning for predicting earthquake magnitudes in the Central Himalaya by Ram Krishna Tiwari, Rudra Prasad Poudel, Harihar Paudyal

“… Human intervention cannot halt natural disasters like earthquakes, but machine learning application expertise can be utilized to detect patterns in data and increase understanding and predictive power. …”
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Point-of-Use technology for clean water treatment in disaster areas: Effectiveness of LDH plate in eliminating pathogenic bacteria by Ihsan Taufiq, Afrianita Reri, Ilfan Freddy

“…This study tackles the clean water crisis in West Sumatra, often exacerbated by natural disasters such as flash floods and landslides, by proposing an innovative point-of-use water treatment method. …”
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From Tradition to Future: Sundanese Indigenous Laws as the Vanguard of Environmental Conservation and Disaster Mitigation by Dimas Febriansyah Krisna Dwiputra, Enok Maryani, Fahmi Nugraha Heryanto

“…These principles are crucial for mitigating natural disasters like landslides, floods, droughts, and climate change. …”
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Analisis faktor produksi terhadap kepuasan petani dalam mendorong ketahanan pangan di Sulawesi Selatan by Andi Arifuddin Iskandar

“…The regression analysis showed a coefficient of determination of 100%, meaning that farmer satisfaction (dependent variable) is fully explained by the production factors (independent variable) and is not significantly influenced by external factors such as pests, diseases, natural disasters, or environmental conditions. The results indicated that the production process was operating at decreasing returns to scale (RTS), implying inefficiency in the use of production factors. …”
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Evaluation of Sanandaj city vulnerability to earthquake using classification tree analysis (CTA) model by shahrivar rostaei, rahim heydari chyaneh, ayoub zoghi

“…As cities become more physically in structure and demographically wider, the rate of crises is also increasing consequently, and cities become more vulnerable to natural disasters for a variety of reasons, including economic and cultural poverty, fault alignment and non-compliance to regulations of earthquake-related issues.  …”
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Traffic Congestion in Ecuador: A Comprehensive Review, Key Factors, Impact, and Solutions of Smart Cities by Luis Roberto Jacome Galarza, Wilson Eduardo Jaramillo Sangurima, Silvia Alexandra Jaramillo Luzuriaga

“…The findings reveal that the main causes are natural disasters disrupting the transportation infrastructure and leading to chaotic traffic flow, lack of infrastructure maintenance, inadequate education, cultural issues, improper traffic signal timing, or the absence of exclusive lanes for public transportation. …”
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Community-Based Social Capital as a Pillar of Disaster Mitigation in Coastal Areas by Wati Rita, Sujianto, Heriyanto Meyzi, Adianto Adianto, Sutikno Sigit, Febrian Achmad Fajri

“…This article explores the influence of community-based social capital in disaster management within Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province, a region prone to natural disasters such as floods, landslides, whirlwinds, coastal abrasion, and erosion. …”
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