Community monitoring can track environmental phenomena, resource use, and natural
resource management processes of concern to community members. It can also contribute …

Water-related climatic disasters pose a significant threat to human health due to the potential
of disease outbreaks, which are exacerbated by climate change. Therefore, it is crucial to …

Floods are among the most severe hazards around the world triggered by climate change,
threatening environmental sustainability, economies, and ecological cycles and damaging …

In this chapter, we introduce early warning systems (EWS) in the context of disaster risk
reduction, including the main components of an EWS, the roles of the main actors and the …

Abstract The Karnali River Basin (KRB) comprises the longest river in Nepal, located south
of the Himalayas. Despite its high susceptibility to floods, the basin lacks detailed studies …

Flooding is a natural but unavoidable disaster that occurs over time. Flooding threatens
human life, property, and resources and affects regional and national economies. Through …

Over the past two decades, humanitarian conduct has been drifting away from the classical
paradigm. This drift is caused by the blurring of boundaries between development aid and …

Farm size and climatic perceptions are important economic and cognitive factors for farmers'
activities. However, little is known about how these factors are related to farmers' …

Investments in disaster risk reduction not only reduce damage, but also promote social and
economic development. While there are many methods of evaluating investments in disaster …

Flood warning systems are longstanding success stories with respect to protecting human
life, but monetary losses continue to grow. Knowledge on the effectiveness of flood early …