This paper provides a state-of-art account on flood vulnerability indices, highlighting
worldwide trends and future research directions. A total of 95 peer-reviewed articles …

Quantifying and mapping resilience and social vulnerability is a widely used technique to
support risk management, with recent years seeing a proliferation of applications across the …

Serious urban floods are projected to occur more frequently in cities in the future due to
continued global climate changes and accelerated urbanization. However, research …

Index-based approaches are widely employed for measuring flood vulnerability.
Nevertheless, the uncertainties in the index construction are rarely considered. Here, we …

Disaster risk management is a challenging task that depends on the correct use of terms.
However, the relevant terminology is not always properly established, especially when …

Among the natural hazards, flash flooding is the leading cause of weather-related deaths.
Flood risk management (FRM) in this context requires a comprehensive assessment of the …

Floods cause catastrophic destruction to life and livelihood in South Asia than any other
parts of the world. This research assessed long term (2001 to 2015) flood risk at South Asia …

Quantitative analyses of storm surge risk, which are mostly focused on physical vulnerability,
have been widely used to help coastal communities mitigate impacts and damage. Such …

The assessment of flood vulnerability is a complex task that involves numerous
uncertainties. Within this context, sensitivity analyses are crucial to better understand the …

The time series forecasting models of climate and ecological systems have grown in
number, variety and complexity over the past years. In our work, we proposed to use the …