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Wenwen Li, Sizhe Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuanyuan Tian, Zhining Gu, Anna Lopez-Carr, Andrew Schroeder, Kitty Currier, Mark Schildhauer and Rui Zhu
The past decade has witnessed an increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, from extreme weather, drought, and wildfires to hurricanes, floods, and wars. Providing timely disaster response and humanitarian aid to these events is a critical topic fo...
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Xiang Han, Yunhe Yin, Yuming Wu and Shaohong Wu
Earthquakes often cause secondary disasters in mountainous areas, forming the typical earthquake-landslide-debris flow disaster chain for a long time that results in a series of losses. It is important to improve the risk assessment method from the persp...
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Gainbi Park
(1) Background: Hurricane events are expected to increase as a consequence of climate change, increasing their intensity and severity. Destructive hurricane activities pose the greatest threat to coastal communities along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atla...
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Natalia Borzino, Samuel Chng, Muhammad Omer Mughal and Renate Schubert
In many countries, urban heat island (UHI) effects come along with urbanization in metropolitan areas. They have relevant adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of citizens. Singapore is strongly affected by UHI. In this study, we assess Singaporean...
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Changxiu Cheng, Ting Zhang, Kai Su, Peichao Gao and Shi Shen
Complex natural disasters often cause people to suffer hardships, and they can cause a large number of casualties. A population that has been affected by a natural disaster is at high risk and desperately in need of help. Even with the timely assessment ...
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Hai-Min Lyu, Guo-Fu Wang, Jack Shuilong Shen, Lin-Hai Lu, Guo-Quan Wang
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On 10 May 2016, Guangdong Province, China, suffered a heavy rainstorm. This rainstorm flooded the whole city of Guangzhou. More than 100,000 people were affected by the flooding, in which eight people lost their lives. Subway stations, cars, and buses we...
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