Cities and settlements by the sea

B Glavovic, R Dawson, WTL CHOW, M Garschagen… - 2022 - cambridge.org
Cities and settlements (C&S) by the sea are on the frontline of climate change—they face
climate-compounded risks that are amongst the highest, but are a key source of innovation …

Understanding interlinkages between long-term trajectory of exposure and vulnerability, path dependency and cascading impacts of disasters in Saint-Martin …

VKE Duvat, N Volto, L Stahl, A Moatty… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
This empirical and interdisciplinary study investigates the contribution of deeply enrooted
social-political factors to the accumulation of exposure and vulnerability and amplification of …

Addressing the climate adaptation tracking gap: an assessment method and its application to the Caribbean region

C Laurent, VKE Duvat - Regional Environmental Change, 2024 - Springer
This article addresses the climate adaptation tracking gap. Indeed, we still ignore the
intensity, nature, spatial distribution, effectiveness, and recent evolution of adaptation efforts …

Investigating the importance of critical infrastructures' interdependencies during recovery; lessons from Hurricane Irma in Saint-Martin's island

R Der Sarkissian, JM Cariolet, Y Diab… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Most research on critical infrastructure (CI) interdependencies focus primarily on their role in
propagating system disruptions, neglecting their role during the restoration and recovery …

[HTML][HTML] Hurricane Irma: an unprecedented event over the last 3700 years? Geomorphological changes and sedimentological record in Codrington Lagoon, Barbuda

M Biguenet, E Chaumillon, P Sabatier… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Low-lying coasts and small islands, such as in the Lesser Antilles, are particularly
vulnerable to hurricane-induced marine floods. In September 2017, category 5 Hurricane …

Impact of major hurricanes on electricity energy production

J Gargani - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022 - Elsevier
After major hurricanes, electricity production reduced owing to not only electricity
infrastructure destruction, but also the economic crisis associated with damage to private …

Inequality growth and recovery monitoring after disaster using indicators based on energy production: Case study on Hurricane Irma at the Caribbean in 2017

J Gargani - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022 - Elsevier
Recovery and inequality growth after a disaster are often difficult to estimate. In this study,
specific indicators were developed to analyze recovery and inequality growth. Here we …

Isostatic adjustment, vertical motion rate variation and potential detection of past abrupt mass unloading

J Gargani - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Intraplate volcanic islands are often considered as stable relief with constant vertical motion
and used for relative sea-level reconstruction. This study shows that large abrupt mass …

A new approach for crisis management analysis: Considering the anticipation/decision making pair as a continuum

V November, T Winter, A Azémar… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The polysemy of crisis anticipation and decision‐making in crisis situations, and the
difficulties regularly encountered during these processes, have been highlighted in the …

[HTML][HTML] A 30 m scale modeling of extreme gusts during Hurricane Irma (2017) landfall on very small mountainous islands in the Lesser Antilles

R Cécé, D Bernard, Y Krien, F Leone… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
In view of the high vulnerability of the small islands of the Lesser Antilles to cyclonic hazards,
realistic very fine scale numerical simulation of hurricane-induced winds is essential to …