Causes of the exceptionally high number of fatalities in the Ahr valley, Germany, during the 2021 flood by B. Rhein, B. Rhein, H. Kreibich

“…Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences…”
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Analysis of the Distribution of Forest Management Areas by the Forest Environmental Tax in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan by Yuta Uchiyama, Ryo Kohsaka

“…From the result, positive correlations are identified between the distribution of management areas and natural hazard areas and between the distribution of management areas and areas with high aging rates.…”
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Le risque cyclonique dans l’Atlantique en 2008 by Sandra Rome

“…This article compares various hurricanes of the Atlantic Ocean, Katrina, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, by differentiating the natural hazard from the vulnerability, especially in Haiti and the United States.…”
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Vivre avec ou par le risque à l’île de Sein ? by Annaig Oiry

“…This island is considered as a symbol of natural hazard territory: indeed this low island has been confronted for decades to face significant flood hazard that is nowadays strengthened by the consequences of global warming and a lack of infrastructures. …”
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Integration of Bayesian Networks with GIS for Dynamic Avalanche Hazard Assessment: NSDI Perspective by Ipek Yilmaz, Derya Ozturk

“…Natural hazard assessments are core to risk definition and early warning systems and play a fundamental role in the prevention of major damages. …”
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Climate and population: risk exposure to precipitation concentration in mainland Spain (1950-2010) by Roberto Serrano Notivoli, María Zúñiga-Antón, Ángel Pueyo, Santiago Beguería, Miguel Ángel Saz, Martín de Luis

“… The term risk exposure combines the notions of natural hazard and the human exposure to that hazard. …”
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Spatial distribution of alluvial fans for evaluating tectonic activity: A case study from the Southern Kharqan mountain range, Hamadan Province by Esmaeil Najafi, Abolfazl Faraji Monfared, Mehdi Ahmadi

“…Identifying and evaluating their impacts can be valuable for natural hazard management and land use planning. In this study an attempt hs been made  to evaluate the status of tectonic activities in the south of the slopes of the Kharqan mountain range in the northeast of Hamedan province. …”
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The role of climate and population change in global flood exposure and vulnerability by Justin S. Rogers, Marco M. Maneta, Stephan R. Sain, Luke E. Madaus, Joshua P. Hacker

“…Abstract Flooding is a pervasive natural hazard with wide-ranging impacts on society. Using a high-resolution global flood model considering coastal, fluvial, and pluvial hazards, we clarify the role of climate effects versus population growth effects in changing flood exposure. …”
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A New Weighting Scheme in Weighted Markov Model for Predicting the Probability of Drought Episodes by Zulfiqar Ali, Ijaz Hussain, Muhammad Faisal, Ibrahim M. Almanjahie, Muhammad Ismail, Maqsood Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmad

“…Drought is a complex stochastic natural hazard caused by prolonged shortage of rainfall. …”
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"Many old people taking care of old people": Experiences of older adults after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. by Adrián J Santiago-Santiago, Jeffrey Ramos-Santiago, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…Located in the Caribbean, PR is prone to natural hazards such as hurricanes, which are a known threat to older adults' overall health and wellbeing. …”
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Application of Extreme Learning Machine Algorithm for Drought Forecasting by Muhammad Ahmad Raza, Mohammed M. A. Almazah, Zulfiqar Ali, Ijaz Hussain, Fuad S. Al-Duais

“…Drought is a complex and frequently occurring natural hazard in many parts of the world. Therefore, accurate drought forecasting is essential to mitigate its adverse impacts. …”
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Assessing the impact of drought on Zlatar Lake area changes using Random Forest with Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral data by Nikolić Ratko R.

“…Drought, a complex natural hazard, poses significant challenges for water resource management due to its unpredictable nature. …”
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Typhoon Vulnerability Analysis in South Korea Utilizing Damage Record of Typhoon Maemi by Ji-Myong Kim, Kiyoung Son, Sang-Guk Yum, Sungjin Ahn

“…In order to create the vulnerability functions and to identify the natural hazard indicators and basic building information indicators, information from the insurance record was used in the analysis. …”
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Evaluation of Shannon Entropy and Weights of Evidence Models in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping for the Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand State, India by Nguyen Duc Dam, Mahdis Amiri, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Indra Prakash, Hiep Van Le, Hanh Bich Thi Nguyen, Binh Thai Pham

“…Landslide susceptibility mapping is considered a useful tool for planning, disaster management, and natural hazard mitigation of a region. Although there are different methods for predicting landslide susceptibility, the bivariate statistical analysis method is considered to be simple and popular. …”
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Debris management after earthquake incidence in ancient City of Ray by L. Askarizadeh, A.R. Karbassi, M.B. Ghalibaf, J. Nouri

“…In this study, the past earthquake incidence in Ray was reviewed using hazards united states tool as a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool. hazards united states tool was chosen to estimate the damage on structural and non-structural elements during various earthquake scenarios with magnitudes of 4.5, 6 and 7.5 on the Richter scale in Ray City. …”
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Field-Obtained Soil-Water Characteristic Curves of KPK Expansive Soil and Their Prediction Correlations by Bakht Zamin, Hassan Nasir, Khalid Mehmood, Qaiser Iqbal

“…Such soils are considered a natural hazard for civil engineering infrastructures especially when they are lightly loaded. …”
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Assessment of Drought Impact on Vegetation Changes in Hamadan over the Past Three Decades Using the TCI Model by Zahra Hedjazizadeh, Sayyed Mohammad Hosseini, Ali reza karbalaee, shokofe layeghi

“…Drought is a natural hazard that annually causes significant economic, social, environmental, and life-threatening damage in vast areas of the Earth. …”
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Flood risk vulnerability assessment using GIS and hydraulic modeling, case study of the Fez river watershed, Morocco by Essahlaoui Narjisse, El Ouali Abdelhadi, Rhazi Abdelaziz, Alitane Abdennabi, Ijlil Safae, Mohajane Meriame, Ammari Zakaria, Oumou Abdellah, Khrabcha Abdelali, El Hafyani Mohamed, Essahlaoui Ali, Aouragh My Hachem, Van Rompaey Anton

“…Weather-related floods in the Fez river watershed constitute the natural hazard that threatens property. In this work, we adopted an approach based on the modeling of flow processes using the HEC-RAS model. …”
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Status of seawater intrusion in Mexico: A review by Xiaoxiao Zha, Jesús Horacio Hernández Anguiano, Francisco Padilla Benítez, Arturo Cruz-Falcón, Raul Miranda-Avilés, Manuel E. Mendoza Cantú, Jorge Adrian Perera-Burgos, Xu Liao, Juan Manuel Navarro-Céspedes, Miguel Angel Acosta-Reyes, Yanmei Li

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A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning by Hao Chen, Ni Yang, Xuanhua Song, Chunhua Lu, Menglan Lu, Tan Chen, Shulin Deng

“…Drought is a frequent, destructive, and complex natural hazard, and seriously threatens eco-environment, socio-economy, and the health of human. …”
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