Approximately one billion people globally live in informal settlements with a large potential fire risk, where single dwelling may result very urban conflagration leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of homeless. What is well understood, however, how fires settlement dwellings develop and spread, what influence the boundary has on these two areas. In this work, four different real-scale compartm...

Background: Iran is an earthquake-prone country, and a considerable rural population lives in earthquake-prone areas. With many worn-out areas, incompetent houses, and relatively underdeveloped rural areas, it is necessary to pay special attention to risk reduction and subsequent measures in these areas. Materials and Methods: Among the current methods, HAZUS is one of the most common methods ...

This work explores the spatial distribution of monsoonal flooded areas using ENVISAT C-band Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) in the semi-arid region of N. Gujarat, India. The amplitude component of SAR Single Look Complex (SLC) images has been used to estimate the extent of surface and near-surface water dynamics using the mean amplitude (MA) of monsoonal (July to September) and post-mo...

Several recent ®eld studies have found disproportionately high barnacle settlement rates (expressed on a per-area basis) in situations where the amount of suitable substrate is reduced, either due to occupation by other individuals or to physical processes. We call this phenomenon the intensi®cation e€ect; it is not included in many models of benthic populations, which assume that the per-area ...

Informal settlements, sometimes called slums, are sites of significant environmental risk in developing cities. Despite its challenges, residents prefer to live informal settlements rather than planned allocated plots. This paper assesses the determinants households’ residential location decision an settlement Port Harcourt order gain understanding on what makes individuals consider a particula...