Applications of artificial intelligence for disaster management

W Sun, P Bocchini, BD Davison - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

State-of-the-art review on power grid resilience to extreme weather events: Definitions, frameworks, quantitative assessment methodologies, and enhancement …

FH Jufri, V Widiputra, J Jung - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The rise of power outages caused by extreme weather events and the frequency of extreme
weather events has motivated the study of grid resilience. This paper presents a state-of-the …

Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries

J Rentschler, M Salhab, BA Jafino - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in
low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people …

Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985

J Rentschler, P Avner, M Marconcini, R Su, E Strano… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Disaster losses are increasing and evidence is mounting that climate change is driving up
the probability of extreme natural shocks,–. Yet it has also proved politically expedient to …

[HTML][HTML] Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

PJ Ward, V Blauhut, N Bloemendaal… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
Since 1990, natural hazards have led to over 1.6 million fatalities globally, and economic
losses are estimated at an average of around USD 260–310 billion per year. The scientific …

Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise

L Reimann, AT Vafeidis, S Brown, J Hinkel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract UNESCO World Heritage sites (WHS) located in coastal areas are increasingly at
risk from coastal hazards due to sea-level rise. In this study, we assess Mediterranean …

Future drought risk in Africa: Integrating vulnerability, climate change, and population growth

A Ahmadalipour, H Moradkhani, A Castelletti… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought risk refers to the potential losses from hazard imposed by a drought event, and it is
generally characterized as a function of vulnerability, hazard, and exposure. In this study …

A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets

EE Koks, J Rozenberg, C Zorn, M Tariverdi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transport infrastructure is exposed to natural hazards all around the world. Here we present
the first global estimates of multi-hazard exposure and risk to road and rail infrastructure …

Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems

I Meza, S Siebert, P Döll, J Kusche… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
Droughts continue to affect ecosystems, communities and entire economies. Agriculture
bears much of the impact, and in many countries it is the most heavily affected sector. Over …

[HTML][HTML] Map** global patterns of drought risk: An empirical framework based on sub-national estimates of hazard, exposure and vulnerability

H Carrão, G Naumann, P Barbosa - Global Environmental Change, 2016 - Elsevier
A global map of drought risk has been elaborated at the sub-national administrative level.
The motivation for this study is the observation that little research and no concerted efforts …