Radioecological risk assessment in tropical climate countries

Ecolego - a toolbox for radioecological risk assessment

Ecolego is a MATLAB toolbox for modelling dynamic systems and to perform risk assessments using model simulations. The toolbox supports linear and non-linear systems, modelled in continuous time, sampled time, or a hybrid of the two. The Graphical User Interface of Ecolego facilitates the transition from a conceptual model, represented with an interaction matrix, to a mathematical model impleme...

Assessment of 21 Century Climate Change Projections in Tropical South America and the Tropical Andes

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

The very limited instrumental record makes extensive analyses of the natural variability of global tropical cyclone activities difficult in most of the tropical cyclone basins. However, in the two regions where reasonably reliable records exist (the North Atlantic and the western North Pacific), substantial multidecadal variability (particularly for intense Atlantic hurricanes) is found, but th...

work environment-related risk factors for leptospirosis among plantation workers in tropical countries: evidence from malaysia

background: leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease that is recognized as a re-emerging global public health issue, especially in tropical and subtropical countries. malaysia, for example, has increasingly registered leptospirosis cases, outbreaks, and fatalities over the past decade. one of the major industries in the country is the palm oil sector, which employs numerous agricultural workers. the...

Climate Risk Management: the Case of Tropical Cyclones

Global warming has induced an increasing number of deadly tropical cyclones with a continuing trend. Developing high-functional climate risk management tools in forecasting, catastrophe modeling, pricing and hedging is crucial to curtail destruction. We develop a hurricane futures and futures-option pricing model in a doubly-binomial framework with stochastic news arrival intensity, and a corre...