Forced migration has a complex relationship with the environment. The type of policy
responses required to alleviate distress migration and improve the livelihoods of involuntary …

Decision makers in the field of disaster management have many tools at their disposal to
assist them in making informed decisions. They make use of the available information to set …

Background A systematic review was conducted to examine the extent, range and nature of
published research evidence using methods to attribute data reported at aggregate levels to …

This article introduces a framework for the multi-criteria satisfaction assessment of the spatial
distribution of urban emergency shelters. A GIS-based analytic hierarchy process approach …

Abstract In 1998, the National Research Council published People and Pixels: Linking
Remote Sensing and Social Science. The volume focused on emerging research linking …

Tsunamis are some of the most destructive types of natural hazards that can affect coastal
areas. To optimize tsunami mitigation measures, it is important to estimate the potential …

Successful evacuations are critical to saving lives from future tsunamis. Pedestrian-
evacuation modeling related to tsunami hazards primarily has focused on identifying areas …

A high-resolution population distribution map is crucial for numerous applications such as
urban planning, disaster management, public health, and resource allocation, and it plays a …

Supply–demand analysis is an important part of the planning of urban emergency shelters.
Using Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China as an example, this study estimated daytime and …

This paper presents a methodology to evaluate life safety risk of coastal communities
vulnerable to seismic and tsunami hazards. The work explicitly incorporates two important …