Natural Disaster Hotspots
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Books and Reports
Agardy, T., J. Alder, P. Dayton, S. Curran, A. Kitchingman, M. Wilson, A. Catenazzi, J. Restrepo, C. Birkeland, S. Blaber, S. Saifullah, G. Branch, D. Boersma, S. Nixon, P. Dugan, N. Davidson, and C. Vörösmarty (2005) Coastal systems. Chapter 19 in Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, R. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash, Eds., Island Press, pp. 513-549. http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.288.aspx.pdf
Committee on the Earth System Science for Decisions About Human Welfare: Contributions of Remote Sensing, G. S. C., National Research Council (2007) Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report, National Academies Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11759.html
Cutter, S. L. (2010) Social science perspectives on hazards and vulnerability science. In: Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risks, Maximizing Awareness, T. Beer (Ed.), pp. 17-30, Springer Netherlands. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3236-2_2
Midgley, S. J. E., Davies, R. A. G. and Chesterman, S. (2011). Climate Risk and Vulnerability Mapping: Status quo (2008) and future (2050) for southern Africa: Synthesis Report. Cape Town: Regional Climate Change Programme for Southern Africa (RCCP), UK Department for International Development (DFID) and OneWorld Sustainable Investments.
Nadim, F., Jaedicke, C., Smebye, H. and Kalsnes, B. (2013) Assessment of Global Landslide Hazard Hotspots. Chapter 4i n: Landslides: Global Risk Preparedness, K. Sassa, B. Rouhban, S. Briceño, M. McSaveney & B. He (Editors), pp. 59-71, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22087-6_4
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, P. D. (2012). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, (CD-ROM Edition). New York: United Nations. http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Maps/maps_sources_1.htm
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat. (2009). 2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate. Manama, Bahrain: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat. http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2009/?pid:34&pih:2
Journal Articles
de Sherbinin, A., Schiller, A. and Pulsipher, A. (2007) The vulnerability of global cities to climate hazards. Environment and Urbanization, 19(1): 39-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247807076725
Diodato, N., Petrucci, O. and Bellocchi, G. (2012) Scale-invariant rainstorm hazard modelling for slopeland warning. Meteorological Applications 19(3): 279-288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/met.259
Hall, O., Duit, A. and Caballero, L. N. C. (2008) World poverty, environmental vulnerability and population at risk for natural hazards. Journal of Maps, 2008: 151-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.4113/jom.2008.95
Kirschbaum, D.B., Adler, R., Hong, Y. and Lerner-Lam, A. (2009) Evaluation of a preliminary satellite-based landslide hazard algorithm using global landslide inventories. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 9(3): 673-686. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-9-673-2009
Lerner-Lam, A. (2007) Assessing global exposure to natural hazards: Progress and future trends. Environmental Hazards, 7(1): 10-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envhaz.2007.04.007
Mosquera-Machado, S. and Dilley, M. (2009) A comparison of selected global disaster risk assessment results. Natural Hazards, 48(3): 439-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-008-9272-0
Nadim, F., Kjekstad, O., Peduzzi, P., Herold, C. and Jaedicke, C. (2006). Global landslide and avalanche hotspots. Landslides, V3(2), 159-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-006-0036-1
Pahl-Wostl, C., Giupponi, C., Richards, K., Binder, C., de Sherbinin, A., Sprinz, D., Toonen, T. and van Bers, C. (2013) Transition towards a new global change science: Requirements for methodologies, methods, data and knowledge. Environmental Science & Policy 28: 36-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.009
Santini, M., Taramelli, A. and Sorichetta, A. (2010) ASPHAA: A GIS-based algorithm to calculate cell area on a latitude-longitude (geographic) regular grid. Transactions in GIS, 14(3): 351-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01200.x
Schumacher, I. and Strobl, E. (2011) Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: The role of hazard exposure. Ecological Economics 72(0): 97-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.09.002
Shi, H., Singh, A., Kant, S., Zhu, Z. and Waller, E. (2005) Integrating habitat status, Human population pressure, and protection status into biodiversity conservation priority setting. Conservation Biology 19(4): 1273-1285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00225.x
Stromberg, P. M., Esteban, M. and Gasparatos, A. (2011) Climate change effects on mitigation measures: The case of extreme wind events and Philippines’ biofuel plan. Environmental Science & Policy 14(8): 1079-1090. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2011.06.004
Varis, O., Kummu, M. and Salmivaara, A. (2012) Ten major rivers in monsoon Asia-Pacific: An assessment of vulnerability. Applied Geography 32(2): 441-454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.05.003