This research aims to investigate the effect of climatic and hydrological factors on flood hazards assess resilience in Ayutthaya, Thailand, using 10 essentials for making cities resilient modified by United Nations Office Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Flood assessment was performed based a multi-criteria decision-making approach or analytical hierarchy process (AHP) pairwise comparison. The...

Hydrometeorological hazards of the Northern Caspian during winter periods 1950–2020—due to climatic changes were investigated. for period 1950–2020 are considered: severe periods, early ice freeze-up, storm waves, wind surge, as well cumulative hydrometeorological hazards—combinations waves and surge. Geographic information system (GIS) “Ice regime southern seas Russia” is basis study Sea. Stor...

West Africa has been described as a hotspot of climate change. The reliance on rain-fed agriculture by over 65% of the population means that vulnerability to climatic hazards such as droughts, rainstorms and floods will continue. Yet, the vulnerability and risk levels faced by different rural social-ecological systems (SES) affected by multiple hazards are poorly understood. To fill this gap, t...

Bread for all is the Swiss Protestant Churches' development agency. It supports 400 development projects and programmes in 57 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It also participates in development policy activities aimed at achieving more equitable international socioeconomic structures, protecting "Creation" and building peace. i I. Executive Summary Climate change affects poor peopl...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com be required for developing countries. To meet the ever increasing and diversified food demand, the production needs to be doubled from the available resources which are already under stress. Dry lands cover 40% of the world’s land area spread in 55 countries, having 2.5 billion people out of which one third people depend on agriculture. Dry lands ha...

Human actions are changing many of the world's natural environmental systems, including the climate system. These systems are intrinsic to life processes and fundamental to human health, and their disruption and depletion make it more difficult to tackle health inequalities. Indeed, we will not achieve the UN millennium development health goals if environmental destruction continues. Health pro...

There is compelling evidence from glacial and interglacial periods of the Quaternary of the utilization of microrefugia. Microrefugia are sites that support locally favorable climates amidst unfavorable regional climates, which allow populations of species to persist outside of their main distributions. Knowledge of the location of microrefugia has important implications for climate change rese...

Over the last 20 years, climate models have been developed to an impressive level of complexity. They are core tools in the study of the interactions of many climatic processes and justifiably provide an additional strand in the argument that anthropogenic climate change is a critical global problem. Over a similar period, there has been growing interest in the interpretation and probabilistic ...

Land suitability analysis is a prerequisite to achieving optimum utilization of the available land resources. Lack of knowledge on best combination of factors that suit production of rice has contributed to the low production. The aim of this study was to develop a suitability map for rice crop based on physical and climatic factors of production using a Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) & GIS ap...