A drought may be defined as the temporal lack of water caused necessarily but not
exclusively by an abnormal climatic situation which may affect negatively the population, the …

This report examines social vulnerability, how it might be understood in the context of natural
hazards in Europe, and how social vulnerability can be addressed to increase social …

The city of Genoa, which places between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennine mountains
(Liguria, Italy) was rocked by severe flash floods on the 4th of November, 2011. Nearly 500 …

Evacuations represent an integral aspect of protecting public safety in locations where
intense, fast-spreading forest fires co-occur with human populations. Most Canadian fire …

A pair of hydro-meteorological modeling systems were calibrated and evaluated for the
Ayalon basin in central Israel to assess the advantages and limitations of one-way versus …

The aim of this work is to introduce a systematic press database on natural hazards and
climate change in Catalonia (NE of Spain) and to analyze its potential application to social …

This contribution analyzes the evolution of perception of certain natural hazards over the
past 25 years in a Mediterranean region. Articles from newspapers have been used as …

Thunderstorms are often the cause of severe and disastrous flash floods. Lightning activity
within these storms can be detected and monitored continuously from thousands of …

This study evaluates how statistical and dynamical downscaling models as well as
combined approach perform in retrieving the space–time variability of near-surface …

This work studies the characteristics of thunderstorms that cause lightning-caused wildfires
in Catalonia, north-east Iberian Peninsula, using lightning and weather radar data. Although …