the identification of natural hazard prone areas for future planning requires an efficient decision support tool to provide the appropriate weights for the various topographical, geological, and seismological factors responsible for the expected hazards. in the present study, an analytical hierarchy process (ahp) with six earthquake hazard parameters (ehps) was used as a decision support system...

Glacier hazards threaten societies in mountain regions worldwide. Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) pose risks to exposed and vulnerable populations and can be linked in part to long-term post-Little Ice Age climate change because precariously dammed glacial lakes sometimes formed as glaciers generally retreated after the mid-1800s. This paper provides an interdisciplinary and historical ana...

Many organisms are accumulating climatic debt as they respond more slowly than expected to rising global temperatures, leading disequilibrium of species diversity with contemporary climate. The resulting transient dynamics complex and may cause overoptimistic biodiversity assessments. We propose a simple budget framework integrate two classes intervention: (i) credits that pay some the debt, re...

As the climate warms, a new hazard, compound flood-heat extreme (CFH) events, characterized by rapid succession of devastating floods and deadly heat (or vice-versa), are becoming increasingly frequent, threatening infrastructure ecosystems. However, how this CFH hazard will change under future anthropogenic warming in China their potential population economic exposures remains unexamined. Here...

Culicoides imicola is the main vector of the bluetongue virus in theMediterranean Basin. Spatial distribution models for this species traditionally employ either climatic data or remotely sensed data, or a combination of both. Until now, however, no studies compared the accuracies of C. imicola distribution models based on climatic versus remote sensing data, even though remotely sensed dataset...

introduction floods are major disasters worldwide that causes serious damage to agriculture, fisheries, housing and infrastructure. they can also disrupt socio-economic activities. as the severity and frequency of flood events have considerably increased, there is a growing global concern about the need to decrease flood related fatalities and associated economic losses. just in 2010, 178 million...

Morphologic and paleozoogeographic analysis of Cenozoic marine Ostracoda from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific indicates that climatic change modulates evolution by disrupting long-term stasis and catalyzing speciation during sustained, unidirectional climatic transitions and, conversely, by maintaining morphologic stasis during rapid, high-frequency climatic oscillations. In the middle Pli...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) is a common cause of acquired paediatric heart disease in developed countries. KD was first identified in the 1960s in Japan, and has been steadily increasing since it was first reported. The aetiology of KD has not been defined, but is assumed to be infection-related. The present study sought to identify the factor(s) that mediate the geographical variation and...

background and objective: prevention of accidents—a crucial requirement in oil industries—involves hazard recognition, risk assessment, and corrective actions. the purpose of this study was to compare the etba and hazop techniques for risk assessment in a gasoline refinery unit. methods: in this case study, data were collected using process flow diagram, walking–talking through method, piping a...