Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards

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Volume 75, issue 3, 2015

Analysis of geoenvironmental hazards in urban underground space development in Shanghai pp. 2067-2079

Yu Huang, Yangjuan Bao and Yuhong Wang

Incorporating climate change and morphological uncertainty into coastal change hazard assessments pp. 2081-2102

Heather Baron, Peter Ruggiero, Nathan Wood, Erica Harris, Jonathan Allan, Paul Komar and Patrick Corcoran

The emerging vulnerable population of the urbanisation resulting from post-disaster recovery of the Wenchuan earthquake pp. 2103-2118

Saini Yang, Juan Du, Shuai He, Mimi Shi and Xiaohua Sun

Non-structural flood risk mitigation under developing country conditions: an analysis on the determinants of willingness to pay for flood insurance in rural Pakistan pp. 2119-2135

Azhar Abbas, T. Amjath-Babu, Harald Kächele and Klaus Müller

Mechanical behavior of a coal seam penetrated by a karst collapse pillar: mining-induced groundwater inrush risk pp. 2137-2151

Dan Ma, Haibo Bai and Yanmeng Wang

A protocol for coordinating post-tsunami field reconnaissance efforts in the USA pp. 2153-2165

Rick Wilson, Nathan Wood, Laura Kong, Mike Shulters, Kevin Richards, Paula Dunbar, Gen Tamura and Ed Young

Small-scale natural disaster risk scenario analysis: a case study from the town of Shuitou, Pingyang County, Wenzhou, China pp. 2167-2183

Yaolong Liu, Guorui Feng, Ye Xue, Huaming Zhang and Ruoguang Wang

A new prediction model for mining subsidence deformation: the arc tangent function model pp. 2185-2198

Lei Nie, Hongfei Wang, Yan Xu and Zechuang Li

Copula-based risk assessment of drought in Yunnan province, China pp. 2199-2220

Dong-Dong Zhang, Deng-Hua Yan, Fan Lu, Yi-Cheng Wang and Jing Feng

Delphi-based consensus study into a framework of community resilience to disaster pp. 2221-2245

Saud Alshehri, Yacine Rezgui and Haijiang Li

Ancient floods, modern hazards: the Ping River, paleofloods and the 'lost city' of Wiang Kum Kam pp. 2247-2263

Serene Ng, Spencer Wood and Alan Ziegler

Landscape vulnerability and rehabilitation issues: a study of hydropower projects in Garhwal region, Himalaya pp. 2265-2278

Vishwambhar Sati

Analysis of possible sources of some unregistered historical earthquake tremors that affected the KwaZulu-Natal coastal regions of South Africa for seismo-tectonic investigations pp. 2279-2289

Mayshree Singh, Mulemwa Akombelwa and Rodney Maud

Hazard assessment of rainfall-induced landslides: a case study of San Vicente volcano in central El Salvador pp. 2291-2310

Daniel Smith, Thomas Oommen, Luke Bowman, John Gierke and Stanley Vitton

Inundation behavior of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami in the Taro District, Miyako City, northeast Japan, as inferred from directional traces pp. 2311-2330

Toru Tachibana

Modeling the early warning of grassland fire risk based on fuzzy logic in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia pp. 2331-2342

Xing-peng Liu, Ji-quan Zhang and Zhi-jun Tong

Characterizing sudden geo-hazards in mountainous areas by D-InSAR with an enhancement of topographic error correction pp. 2343-2356

Q. Sun, L. Zhang, J. Hu, X. Ding, Z. Li and J. Zhu

Effects of water quality of the basin caused by nitrogen loss from soil in drought pp. 2357-2368

Bin Huang, D. Yan, H. Wang, B. Cheng and X. Cui

Critical rainfall to trigger landslides in Cunha River basin, southern Brazil pp. 2369-2384

Gean Michel, Roberto Goerl and Masato Kobiyama

Land subsidence in the modern Yellow River Delta based on InSAR time series analysis pp. 2385-2397

Jin-Zhi Zhang, Hai-jun Huang and Hai-bo Bi

A probabilistic approach toward earthquake hazard assessment using two first-order Markov models in Northeastern India pp. 2399-2419

William Mohanty, Alok Mohapatra and Akhilesh Verma

Disaster management: hierarchical structuring criteria for selection and location of temporary shelters pp. 2421-2436

Manuela Nappi and João Souza

Drought severity change in China during 1961–2012 indicated by SPI and SPEI pp. 2437-2451

Wen Wang, Ye Zhu, Rengui Xu and Jintao Liu

Quantitative analysis of seismic velocity tomography in rock burst hazard assessment pp. 2453-2465

Wu Cai, Linming Dou, Siyuan Gong, Zhenlei Li and Shasha Yuan

Urgent landslide susceptibility assessment in the 2013 Lushan earthquake-impacted area, Sichuan Province, China pp. 2467-2487

Zhi-hua Yang, Heng-xing Lan, Xing Gao, Lang-ping Li, Yun-shan Meng and Yu-ming Wu

Modeling the exceptional south Foehn event (Garmij) over the Alborz Mountains during the extreme forest fire of December 2005 pp. 2489-2518

Abbas Mofidi, Iman Soltanzadeh, Yadollah Yousefi, Azar Zarrin, Mohsen Soltani, Jafar Masoompour Samakosh, Ghasem Azizi and Samuel Miller

Damage evolution of tunnel portal during the longitudinal propagation of Rayleigh waves pp. 2519-2543

Dong Wu, Bo Gao, Yusheng Shen, Jiamei Zhou and Guihong Chen

Influence of seasonal melt layer depth on the stability of surrounding rock in permafrost regions based on the measurement pp. 2545-2557

Shiwei Shen, Caichu Xia, Jihui Huang and Yan Li

Intuitionistic fuzzy theory based typhoon disaster evaluation in Zhejiang Province, China: a comparative perspective pp. 2559-2576

Dejian Yu

On the use of AFOSM to estimate major earthquake probabilities in Taiwan pp. 2577-2587

J. Wang and H. Kuo-Chen

Degradation characteristics of permafrost under the effect of climate warming and engineering disturbance along the Qinghai–Tibet Highway pp. 2589-2605

Hui Peng, Wei Ma, Yan-hu Mu, Long Jin and Kun Yuan

Spatial and temporal changes of meteorological disasters in China during 1950–2013 pp. 2607-2623

Yinghui Guan, Fenli Zheng, Peng Zhang and Chao Qin

The effects of biological geotextiles on gully stabilization in São Luís, Brazil pp. 2625-2636

A. Guerra, J. Bezerra, M. Fullen, J. Mendonça and M. Jorge

Spatial correlation between land subsidence and urbanization in Beijing, China pp. 2637-2652

Beibei Chen, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Kunchao Lei, Yinghai Ke, Guangyao Duan and Chaofan Zhou

Potential for future eruptive activity in Taiwan and vulnerability to volcanic hazards pp. 2653-2671

K. Konstantinou

Exploring commercial sector building energy consumption in China pp. 2673-2682

Ming Zhang, Yan Song and Lixia Yao

Identification and control of spontaneous combustion of coal pillars: a case study in the Qianyingzi Mine, China pp. 2683-2697

Yi Lu and Botao Qin

Water environment early warning index system in Tongzhou District pp. 2699-2714

Xiu-ju Zhang, Ning Qiu, Wen-Rong Zhao, Huan An and Julius Tommy

Desertification assessments in the Hexi corridor of northern China’s Gansu Province by remote sensing pp. 2715-2731

Lanying Han, Zhengcai Zhang, Qiang Zhang and Xin Wan

Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme hurricanes impacting US coastal cities pp. 2733-2749

Kelsey Ellis, Linda Sylvester and Jill Trepanier

Assessment of water resource security in Chongqing City of China: What has been done and what remains to be done? pp. 2751-2772

Jun-Yi Zhang and La-Chun Wang

Estimation of flood damage functions for river basin planning: a case study in Bangladesh pp. 2773-2791

Y. Yang, Patrick Ray, Casey Brown, Abedalrazq Khalil and Winston Yu

Spatio-temporal analysis of Quaternary deposit landslides in the Three Gorges pp. 2793-2813

Xianmin Wang, Witold Pedrycz and Ruiqing Niu

Evaluating salinity damage to crops through satellite data analysis: application to typhoon affected areas of southern Japan pp. 2815-2828

Kensuke Goto, Takehiro Goto, Jephtha Nmor, Kazuo Minematsu and Keinosuke Gotoh

Farmers’ perception of climate change, impact and adaptation strategies: a case study of four villages in the semi-arid regions of India pp. 2829-2845

Rupsha Banerjee

Numerical analysis of tsunami–structure interaction using a modified MPS method pp. 2847-2862

Yu Huang and Chongqiang Zhu

Reconstruction of statistical–dynamical model of the Western Pacific subtropical high and East Asian summer monsoon factors and its forecast experiments pp. 2863-2883

Mei Hong, Ren Zhang, Cheng Bai, Xi Chen, Dong Wang and Jingjing Ge

Use of four drought indices for evaluating drought characteristics under climate change in Shaanxi, China: 1951–2012 pp. 2885-2903

Rengui Jiang, Jiancang Xie, Hailong He, Jungang Luo and Jiwei Zhu

A flash flood hazard assessment in dry valleys (northern France) by cellular automata modelling pp. 2905-2929

Johnny Douvinet, Marco Wiel, Daniel Delahaye and Etienne Cossart

A new technique for preventing and controlling coal and gas outburst hazard with pulse hydraulic fracturing: a case study in Yuwu coal mine, China pp. 2931-2946

Quangui Li, Baiquan Lin and Cheng Zhai

Monitoring the land subsidence with persistent scatterer interferometry in Nansha District, Guangdong, China pp. 2947-2964

Minsi Ao, Changcheng Wang, Rongan Xie, Xingqing Zhang, Jun Hu, Yanan Du, Zhiwei Li, Jianjun Zhu, Wujiao Dai and Cuilin Kuang

Characterizing dilatation energy of released gas from underground coal seam by drilling boreholes pp. 2965-2984

Baohai Yu, Jianwei Cheng, Shengqiang Yang and Deming Wang

High concentration of acidic species in rainwater at Varanasi in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, India pp. 2985-3003

D. Bisht, S. Tiwari, A. Srivastava, J. Singh, B. Singh and M. Srivastava

Assessment and prediction for service life of water resources and hydropower engineering pp. 3005-3019

Huaizhi Su, Jiang Hu, Men Yang and Zhiping Wen

Volume 75, issue 2, 2015

Vulnerability of infrastructure to natural hazards and climate change in China pp. 107-110

Yi-Ming Wei, Ke Wang, Zhao-Hua Wang and Hirokazu Tatano

Regional effects of natural disasters in China: investing in post-disaster recovery pp. 111-126

Tam Vu and Ilan Noy

Assessment of energy supply vulnerability between China and USA pp. 127-138

Lancui Liu and Gang Wu

Study on runoff simulation of the upstream of Minjiang River under future climate change scenarios pp. 139-154

Shifeng Huang, Wenbin Zang, Mei Xu, Xiaotao Li, Xuecheng Xie, Zhongmin Li and Jisheng Zhu

Integrated risk assessment method of waterlog disaster in Huaihe River Basin of China pp. 155-178

Ju-Liang Jin, Juan Fu, Yi-Ming Wei, Shang-Ming Jiang, Yu-Liang Zhou, Li Liu, You-Zhen Wang and Cheng-Guo Wu

Comprehensive evaluation of ice disaster risk of the Ningxia–Inner Mongolia Reach in the upper Yellow River pp. 179-197

Cheng-Guo Wu, Yi-Ming Wei, Ju-Liang Jin, Qiang Huang, Yu-Liang Zhou and Li Liu

Spatiotemporal variation of meteorological droughts based on the daily comprehensive drought index in the Haihe River basin, China pp. 199-217

Jun He, Xiao-Hua Yang, Jian-Qiang Li, Ju-Liang Jin, Yi-Ming Wei and Xiao-Juan Chen

Economic benefit assessment of the geo-hazard monitoring and warning engineering system in the Three Gorges Reservoir area: a case study of the landslide in Zigui pp. 219-231

Shiwei Yu, Jindong Hou, Jun Lv and Guizhi Ba

Emergency countermeasures against marine disasters in Qingdao City on the basis of scenario analysis pp. 233-255

Zhaohui Zhang, Xuliang Zhang, Zongjun Xu, Haiyan Yao, Ge Li and Xiujun Liu

Driving forces of indirect carbon emissions from household consumption in China: an input–output decomposition analysis pp. 257-272

Zhao-Hua Wang, Wei Liu and Jianhua Yin

Multi-directional efficiency analysis-based regional industrial environmental performance evaluation of China pp. 273-299

Ke Wang, Shiwei Yu, Mo-Jie Li and Yi-Ming Wei

Erratum to: An overview of climate change vulnerability: a bibliometric analysis based on Web of Science database pp. 301-301

Bing Wang, Su-Yan Pan, Ruo-Yu Ke, Ke Wang and Yi-Ming Wei

Strategies for addressing climate change on the industrial level: affecting factors to CO 2 emissions of energy-intensive industries in China pp. 303-317

Zhaohua Wang, Chen Wang and Jianhua Yin

Using LMDI method to analyze the influencing factors of carbon emissions in China’s petrochemical industries pp. 319-332

Tijun Fan, Ruiling Luo, Haiyang Xia and Xiaopeng Li

Market risk in carbon market: an empirical analysis of the EUA and sCER pp. 333-346

Bao-Jun Tang, Cheng Shen and Yi-fan Zhao

Emergency alternative evaluation and selection based on ANP, DEMATEL, and TL-TOPSIS pp. 347-379

Yanbing Ju, Aihua Wang and Tianhui You

Highway flood disaster risk evaluation and management in China pp. 381-397

Bin Ou-Yang, Chun-Chao Chu, Yabin Da, Xiao-Fei Liu and Hai-Ying Zhang

Impact of data assimilation in simulation of thunderstorm (squall line) event over Bangladesh using WRF model, during SAARC–STORM Pilot Field Experiment 2011 pp. 1009-1022

M. Ahasan and S. Debsarma

Monitoring of late-season agricultural drought in cotton-growing districts of Andhra Pradesh state, India, using vegetation, water and soil moisture indices pp. 1023-1046

K. Chandrasekar and M. Sesha Sai

Animals as valuable instinctive and ‘learned’ beings in the field of disaster management: a comparative perspective pp. 1047-1056

Kyoo-Man Ha

Coda wave attenuation characteristics for Kumaon and Garhwal Himalaya, India pp. 1057-1074

Ashvini Kumar, A. Sinvhal, A. Joshi, D. Kumar, Sandeep and Parveen Kumar

Regional frequency analysis of extreme rainfall events in Jakarta pp. 1075-1104

Jiandong Liu, Chi Doan, Shie-Yui Liong, Richard Sanders, Anh Dao and Timothy Fewtrell

Impacts of ENSO and IOD on tropical cyclone activity in the Bay of Bengal pp. 1105-1125

Biranchi Mahala, Birendra Nayak and Pratap Mohanty

Community responses and adaptation strategies toward flood hazard in Jakarta, Indonesia pp. 1127-1144

Muh Marfai, Andung Sekaranom and Philip Ward

Stochastic finite-fault modeling of M w 5.4 earthquake along Uttarakhand–Nepal border pp. 1145-1166

Himanshu Mittal and Ashok Kumar

Study of role of basin shape in the site–city interaction effects on the ground motion characteristics pp. 1167-1186

D. Sahar, J. Narayan and Neeraj Kumar

Coastal boulders as evidences of high-energy marine events from Diu Island, west coast of India: storm or palaeotsunami? pp. 1187-1203

S. Prizomwala, Drasti Gandhi, Vishal Ukey, Nilesh Bhatt and B. Rastogi

Evaluation of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model for tropical cyclone forecasts over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) pp. 1205-1221

A. Das, Y. Rama Rao, Vijay Tallapragada, Zhan Zhang, S. Roy Bhowmik and Arun Sharma

Role of climate change in increasing occurrences oceanic hazards as a potential threat to coastal ecology pp. 1223-1245

Dipankar Ghorai and H. Sen

SPH modeling of tidal bore scenarios pp. 1247-1270

Huaxing Liu, Jing Li, Songdong Shao and Soon Tan

Urban flood vulnerability zoning of Cochin City, southwest coast of India, using remote sensing and GIS pp. 1271-1286

K. Sowmya, C. John and N. Shrivasthava

Disaster recovery as participation: lessons from the Shaky Isles pp. 1287-1301

Suzanne Vallance

A coupled 1D–2D hydrodynamic model for flood simulation in flood detention basin pp. 1303-1325

Qiang Liu, Yi Qin, Yang Zhang and Ziwen Li

A new geotechnical method for natural slope exploration and analysis pp. 1327-1348

A. Athapaththu, Takashi Tsuchida and Seiji Kano

Nowcasting visibility during wintertime fog over the airport of a metropolis of India: decision tree algorithm and artificial neural network approach pp. 1349-1368

Debashree Dutta and Sutapa Chaudhuri

Predictability of landfall location and surge height of tropical cyclones over North Indian Ocean (NIO) pp. 1369-1388

Sutapa Chaudhuri, Sayantika Goswami, Anirban Middey, Debanjana Das and S. Chowdhury

Determination of the distribution of flood forecasting error pp. 1389-1402

Junhong Zhang, Lu Chen, Vijay Singh, Hongwen Cao and Dangwei Wang

A numerical model for the simulation of debris flow triggering, propagation and arrest pp. 1403-1433

Andrea D’Aniello, Luca Cozzolino, Luigi Cimorelli, Renata Della Morte and Domenico Pianese

Wind speed prediction using spatio-temporal covariance pp. 1435-1449

Anup Suryawanshi and Debraj Ghosh

Expansion of a glacial lake, Tsho Chubda, Chamkhar Chu Basin, Hindukush Himalaya, Bhutan pp. 1451-1464

Sanjay Jain, Rishitosh Sinha, Anju Chaudhary and Sandeep Shukla

Remote sensing-based studies coupled with field data reveal urgent solutions to avert the risk of flash floods in the Wadi Qus (east of Jeddah) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pp. 1465-1488

Ahmed Youssef, Biswajeet Pradhan and Saleh Sefry

A scenario-based risk framework for determining consequences of different failure modes of earth dams pp. 1489-1530

Paul Cleary, Mahesh Prakash, Stuart Mead, Vincent Lemiale, Geoff Robinson, Fanghong Ye, Sida Ouyang and Xinming Tang

Insights on social learning and collaborative action plan development for disaster risk reduction: practicing Yonmenkaigi System Method (YSM) in flood-prone Mumbai pp. 1531-1554

Subhajyoti Samaddar, Junho Choi, Bijay Misra and Hirokazu Tatano

Development and application of Shannon’s entropy integrated information value model for landslide susceptibility assessment and zonation in Sikkim Himalayas in India pp. 1555-1576

L. Sharma, Nilanchal Patel, M. Ghose and P. Debnath

Evidence for non-self-similarity in the M w 7.7 2001 Bhuj earthquake sequence pp. 1577-1598

Manish Kumar, V. Yallanki, Koushik Biswas and Prantik Mandal

On the significance of incorporating shoreline changes for evaluating coastal hydrodynamics under sea level rise scenarios pp. 1599-1617

Davina Passeri, Scott Hagen, Matthew Bilskie and Stephen Medeiros

Field observation and numerical simulation of past and future storm surges in the Bay of Bengal: case study of cyclone Nargis pp. 1619-1647

Khandker Tasnim, Tomoya Shibayama, Miguel Esteban, Hiroshi Takagi, Koichiro Ohira and Ryota Nakamura

Clastic dikes in the Dead Sea basin as indicators of local site amplification pp. 1649-1676

Y. Jacoby, R. Weinberger, T. Levi and S. Marco

Modeling the effect of uncertainties in rainfall characteristics on flash flood warning based on rainfall thresholds pp. 1677-1711

Shiang-Jen Wu, Chih-Tsung Hsu, Ho-Cheng Lien and Che-Hao Chang

Coastal vulnerability assessment: a case study on erosion and coastal change along Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar pp. 1713-1729

Anitha Parthasarathy and Usha Natesan

Modeling business interruption impacts due to disrupted highway network of Shifang by the Wenchuan earthquake pp. 1731-1745

Yan Shi, Shumiao Jin and Klaus Seeland

Economic impact upon agricultural production from extreme flood events in Quang Nam, central Vietnam pp. 1747-1765

Vu Chau, Sue Cassells and John Holland

Study on the settlement caused by the Maglev train pp. 1767-1778

Zhen-Dong Cui and Qiang Yuan

An empirical equation of effective shaking duration for moderate to large earthquakes pp. 1779-1793

Ya-Ting Lee, Kuo-Fong Ma, Yu-Ju Wang and Kuo-Liang Wen

Adaptation of the Canadian Fire Weather Index to Mediterranean forests pp. 1795-1810

Stefano Chelli, Pierluigi Maponi, Giandiego Campetella, Paolo Monteverde, Monica Foglia, Eleonora Paris, Andreas Lolis and Thomas Panagopoulos

Variations in population vulnerability to tectonic and landslide-related tsunami hazards in Alaska pp. 1811-1831

Nathan Wood and Jeff Peters

Controlling coal fires using the three-phase foam and water mist techniques in the Anjialing Open Pit Mine, China pp. 1833-1852

Zhenlu Shao, Deming Wang, Yanming Wang, Xiaoxing Zhong, Xiaofei Tang and Xiangming Hu

Influencing factors of households disadvantaged in post-earthquake life recovery: a case study of the Wenchuan earthquake in China pp. 1853-1869

Ying Wang, Zhenhua Zou and Juan Li

The study on forecasting the surface rupture width under strong earthquake based on information diffusion methodology pp. 1871-1882

Bo Li, Jingyu Su, Donghui Ma and Wei Wang

Mapping composite vulnerability to groundwater arsenic contamination: an analytical framework and a case study in India pp. 1883-1908

Sushant Singh and Neeraj Vedwan

Seasonal forecasting of 2014 summer heat wave over Beijing using GRAAP and other statistical methods pp. 1909-1925

Guodong Xu, Peng Guo, Xuemei Li and Yingying Jia

Quantitative monitoring of gravity erosion using a novel 3D surface measuring technique: validation and case study pp. 1927-1939

Xiang-Zhou Xu, Hong-Wu Zhang, Wen-Long Wang, Chao Zhao and Qiao Yan

Verification of the RAMS-based operational weather forecast system in the Valencia Region: a seasonal comparison pp. 1941-1958

I. Gómez, M. Estrela and V. Caselles

Displacement evolution of a creeping landslide stabilized with piles pp. 1959-1976

Yang Yu, Yue-quan Shang, Hong-yue Sun and En-zhi Wang

Performance evaluation of Turkish disaster relief management system in 1999 earthquakes using data envelopment analysis pp. 1977-1996

Abdullah Üstün and Gülay Barbarosoğlu

Effects of drought stress on agriculture soil pp. 1997-2011

S. Geng, D. Yan, T. Zhang, B. Weng, Z. Zhang and T. Qin

Extremely cool summers in Central and Eastern Europe (1951–2010) pp. 2013-2026

Robert Twardosz and Urszula Kossowska-Cezak

Impact of climatic factors on monthly electricity consumption of China’s sectors pp. 2027-2037

Jing-Li Fan, Bao-Jun Tang, Hao Yu, Yun-Bing Hou and Yi-Ming Wei

Impacts of socioeconomic factors on monthly electricity consumption of China’s sectors pp. 2039-2047

Jing-Li Fan, Bao-Jun Tang, Hao Yu, Yun-Bing Hou and Yi-Ming Wei

Usage of the WRF/DHSVM model chain for simulation of extreme floods in mountainous areas: a pilot study for the Uzh River Basin in the Ukrainian Carpathians pp. 2049-2063

Ivan Kovalets, Sergey Kivva and Oleg Udovenko

Erratum to: Determination of the distribution of flood forecasting error pp. 2065-2065

Junhong Zhang, Lu Chen, Vijay Singh, Wenhong Cao and Dangwei Wang

Volume 75, issue 1, 2015

Flood prevention and mitigation at large rivers pp. 1-3

Helmut Habersack, Daniel Haspel and Bernhard Schober

Lightning alarm system using stochastic modelling pp. 1-11

Abhay Srivastava, Mrinal Mishra and Manoj Kumar

Floodplain evaluation matrix (FEM): An interdisciplinary method for evaluating river floodplains in the context of integrated flood risk management pp. 5-32

Helmut Habersack, Bernhard Schober and Christoph Hauer

Survey and cause analyses of ground surface deformation near a foundation pit slope: a case study in the Three Gorges area, China pp. 13-31

Guangcheng Zhang, Ni Xie, Huiming Tang, Lu Zhang and Jiangpeng Wu

Recent changes in total ice volume on Volcán Villarrica, Southern Chile pp. 33-55

Andrés Rivera, Rodrigo Zamora, José Uribe, Anja Wendt, Jonathan Oberreuter, Sebastián Cisternas, Fernando Gimeno and Jorge Clavero

A novel assessment of the role of Danube floodplains in flood hazard reduction (FEM method) pp. 33-50

Bernhard Schober, Christoph Hauer and Helmut Habersack

Progress in natural flood retention at the Bavarian Danube pp. 51-67

D. Skublics and P. Rutschmann

Factors that affect rescue time in urban search and rescue (USAR) operations pp. 57-69

M. Statheropoulos, A. Agapiou, G. Pallis, K. Mikedi, S. Karma, J. Vamvakari, M. Dandoulaki, F. Andritsos and C. Thomas

Assessment of flood-prone stripes within the Danube drainage area in the South-West Oltenia Development Region, Romania pp. 69-88

O. Ionuş, M. Licurici, M. Pătroescu and S. Boengiu

Deriving information on disasters caused by natural hazards from limited data: a Guatemalan case study pp. 71-94

Agnes Soto

Environmental impact and risk quantification based on selected water quality indicators pp. 89-105

Carmen Teodosiu, Brindusa Robu, Claudia Cojocariu and George Barjoveanu

Agent-based modeling and simulations of land-use and land-cover change according to ant colony optimization: a case study of the Erhai Lake Basin, China pp. 95-118

Xu QuanLi, Yang Kun, Wang GuiLin and Yang YuLian

Determining of the local housing identity in urban transformation areas under disaster risk: Bursa, Turkey pp. 119-139

Nilüfer Taş and Murat Taş

Use of ground-penetrating radar for construction monitoring and evaluation of perpetual pavements pp. 141-161

Jiusu Li, Lubinda Walubita, Geoffrey Simate, Allex Alvarez and Wenting Liu

Risk-based optimization of emergency rescue facilities locations for large-scale environmental accidents to improve urban public safety pp. 163-189

Ming Zhao and Qiuwen Chen

Transboundary river basin flood forecasting and early warning system experience in Maritza River basin between Bulgaria and Turkey pp. 191-214

Ismail Tuncok

Analysis of the robustness of the French flood warning system: a study based on the 2009 flood of the Garonne River pp. 215-241

F. Daupras, J. Antoine, S. Becerra and A. Peltier

Investigating the residential energy consumption behaviors in Beijing: a survey study pp. 243-263

Lancui Liu, Gang Wu and Yue-Jun Zhang

Seismic performance of elevated steel silos during Van earthquake, October 23, 2011 pp. 265-287

Eren Uckan, Bulent Akbas, Jay Shen, Rou Wen, Kenan Turandar and Mustafa Erdik

Analysis of non-stationary climate-related extreme events considering climate change scenarios: an application for multi-hazard assessment in the Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania pp. 289-320

Alexander Garcia-Aristizabal, Edoardo Bucchignani, Elisa Palazzi, Donatella D’Onofrio, Paolo Gasparini and Warner Marzocchi

A geospatial approach to assessing soil erosion in a watershed by integrating socio-economic determinants and the RUSLE model pp. 321-342

Krishna Bhandari, Jagannath Aryal and Rotchanatch Darnsawasdi

Quantifying household social resilience: a place-based approach in a rapidly transforming community pp. 343-363

Sarah Henly-Shepard, Cheryl Anderson, Kimberly Burnett, Linda Cox, John Kittinger and Maka‘ala Ka‘aumoana

Insights from Hazus loss estimations in Israel for Dead Sea Transform earthquakes pp. 365-388

T. Levi, D. Bausch, O. Katz, J. Rozelle and A. Salamon

Flood risk assessment for delta mega-cities: a case study of Jakarta pp. 389-413

Yus Budiyono, Jeroen Aerts, JanJaap Brinkman, Muh Marfai and Philip Ward

Geological risk assessment of Amtoudi Agadir in southern Morocco: a key case for sustainable cultural heritage pp. 415-440

P. Robles-Marín, F. Guerrera, M. Martín-Martín, G. Raffaelli, F. Alcalá, J. Tejera de León, T. Cherkaoui, L. Asebriy, I. El Amrani and S. Moliner-Aznar

Interpreting Auckland’s volcanic governance through an institutional lens pp. 441-464

Catherine Murray, Garry McDonald and Shane Cronin

Analysis of long-term settlements of Shanghai Subway Line 1 based on the in situ monitoring data pp. 465-472

Zhen-Dong Cui and Jun Tan

Natural hazard risk in the case of an emergency: the real options’ approach pp. 473-488

Ludovic Gaudard and Franco Romerio

Runout and deposit morphology of Bingham fluid as a function of initial volume: implication for debris flow modelling pp. 489-513

L. Calvo, B. Haddad, M. Pastor and D. Palacios

Trends in climate, short-duration rainfall, and damaging hydrogeological events (Apulia, Southern Italy) pp. 515-540

M. Polemio and T. Lonigro

Impacts of the global economic crisis and Tohoku earthquake on Sino–Japan trade: a comparative perspective pp. 541-556

Man Li, Tao Ye, Peijun Shi and Jian Fang

Deterministic seismic hazard analysis considering different seismicity levels for the state of Goa, India pp. 557-580

Nisha Naik and Deepankar Choudhury

Risk assessment of environmental corrosion for reinforcing steel bars embedded in concrete in Taiwan pp. 581-611

Chien-Kuo Chiu, Fung-Chung Tu and Cheng-Yu Fan

Exploring the possibilities of school-based recovery and community building in Toni District, Kamaishi pp. 613-633

Shohei Matsuura and Rajib Shaw

When a hazard occurs where it is not expected: risk judgments about different regions after the Christchurch earthquakes pp. 635-652

John McClure, David Johnston, Liv Henrich, Taciano Milfont and Julia Becker

Application of fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for assessment of combating-desertification alternatives in central Iran pp. 653-667

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Assessment of Tsunami Hazard Vulnerability along the coastal environs of Andaman Islands pp. 701-726

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Study of a partially failed landslide and delineation of piping phenomena by vertical electrical sounding (VES) in the Wayanad Plateau, Kerala, India pp. 755-778

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Study of lapse time dependence coda Q in the Andaman Islands using the aftershocks of the 2002 earthquake (M w 6.5) pp. 779-793

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The response of farmers to the flood hazard under rice–wheat ecosystem in Somb basin of Haryana, India: an empirical study pp. 795-811

Omvir Singh and Hawa Singh

Simultaneous measurements of black carbon and PM 2.5, CO, and NO x variability at a locally polluted urban location in India pp. 813-829

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Assessment of regional vulnerability to seismic hazards in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan area, China pp. 831-848

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Identification of areas with significant flood risk at the confluence of Danube and Ipeľ rivers (southern Slovakia) pp. 849-867

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Post-cyclone emergency services: a cost–benefit analysis for Cairns, Australia pp. 869-886

Leo Dobes, Gabriela Scheufele and Jeffrey Bennett

Impacts of urbanization on flooding of a coastal urban catchment: a case study of Mumbai City, India pp. 887-908

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Comparison of methodologies for flood rainfall thresholds estimation pp. 909-934

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Analysis of temperature variability over north-west part of India for the period 1970–2000 pp. 935-952

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Geomorphic appraisal of landslides on the windward slope of Western Ghats, southern India pp. 953-973

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Comment on “Effect of surface wave inversion non-uniqueness on 1D seismic ground response analysis” by Roy et al pp. 975-981

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Reply to comment on “Effect of surface wave inversion non-uniqueness on 1D seismic ground response analysis” pp. 983-989

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Comment on “Communicating earthquake risk to the public: the trial of the ‘L’Aquila Seven’” by David E. Alexander pp. 991-998

Franco Gabrielli and Daniela Bucci

Reply to a comment by Franco Gabrielli and Daniela Di Bucci: “Communicating earthquake risk to the public: the trial of the ‘L’Aquila Seven’” pp. 999-1003

David Alexander

Erratum to: Sudden surface collapse disasters caused by shallow partial mining in Datong coalfield, China pp. 1005-1005

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