Managing flood risk, ie both the hazard and the potential consequences, is an important
aspect of adapting to global change and has gained much traction in recent decades. As a …

Disaster scholars' interest in social capital has grown dramatically, due in part because
social capital gets at the heart of collective action, cooperation, and the therapeutic …

The global impacts of river floods are substantial and rising. Effective adaptation to the
increasing risks requires an in-depth understanding of the physical and socioeconomic …

The factors that explain the speed of recovery after disaster remain contested. While many
have argued that physical infrastructure, social capital, and disaster damage influence the …

Abstract Theory suggests that social capital should moderate the impacts of climatic and
geophysical hazards and shape adaptive capacities and recovery trajectories, yet the …

In recent years, floods caused by heavy rain have caused major disasters in urban centres
around the world. A lack of disaster preparedness in the global South has resulted in much …

Chile has a long‐standing history of natural disasters and, in particular, earthquakes. The
latest big earthquake hit Chile on 27 February 2010 with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter …

In the face of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events due to climate
change, merely top-down governance approaches are increasingly found inadequate and …

In recent years, the study of resilience of regional and local systems has become a popular
topic in relation to the increasing of economic, social and environmental shocks. Despite the …

Flood is known to be the leading cause of natural disasters globally leaving disastrous and
devastating damages in its wake. Flood risk and their time of occurrence is usually difficult to …