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  1. On September 6th, 2018, at 3:07 local time, a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw = 6.6 struck the east Iburi region in Hokkaido, Japan. Many serious damages such as landslide, liquefaction and collapse of houses o...

    Authors: Yuko Serikawa, Masakatsu Miyajima, Masaho Yoshida and Kenji Matsuno

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:14

    Content type: Research

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  2. On 14–18 March 2019, the UNESCO Chair 2019 Field School on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction has been held in Shimane University, Japan. The field school comprised two-day field work and three-day academic l...

    Authors: Fawu Wang, Miguel Clüsener-Godt and Zili Dai

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:13

    Content type: Editorial

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  3. The UNESCO Chair Workshop on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction was held on 28 April – 1 May 2019 in Palu City and Jakarta, Indonesia. Firstly, this article introduces the background and objectives of the wor...

    Authors: Fikri Faris, Teuku Faisal Fathani and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:12

    Content type: Editorial

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  5. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Geoenvironmental Disasters. Several articles were published in volume 6 with a duplicate citation number.

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    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

    Content type: Publisher Correction

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    The original article was published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:7

    The original article was published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:6

  7. This research examines the susceptibility of logged and regenerated forest region to erosion through the application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographical information systems (GIS). In ord...

    Authors: H. Vijith and D. Dodge-Wan

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:8

    Content type: Research

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  8. This manuscript reviews seismic isolation and response control methods of buildings, which are able to make buildings resilient against earthquakes and have become popular during the last three decades in Japa...

    Authors: Yutaka Nakamura and Keiichi Okada

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:7

    Content type: Review

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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

  9. On September 28th, 2018, at 18:02 local time (10:02 UTC), a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw = 7.5 struck Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The epicenter was located at 0.256o south latitude and 119.846o eas...

    Authors: Masakatsu Miyajima, Hendra Setiawan, Masaho Yoshida, Yusuke Ono, Kenji Kosa, Ida Sri Oktaviana, Martini and Irdhiani

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:6

    Content type: Short report

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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

  12. High basin of Oum Er Rbia River, which is located in Middle Atlas Mountain region, is prone to landslide problems due to the geological features combined with the climate change and human activities. The prese...

    Authors: Aafaf El Jazouli, Ahmed Barakat and Rida Khellouk

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  17. Earthquakes in liquefaction-prone areas are frequently followed by the settlement of surface structures due to subsoil liquefaction. This paper aims to study the influence of geosynthetics along with gravel us...

    Authors: Hendra Setiawan, Yuko Serikawa, Wataru Sugita, Hajime Kawasaki and Masakatsu Miyajima

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:22

    Content type: Research

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  19. On 27–31th August 2018, the 16th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ISGdR) has been held in Strasburg, France, focusing on the theme of “Global Strategy for Geo-disaster Reduction”. Through Key...

    Authors: Xiaoli Su, Miguel Clüsener-Godt and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:20

    Content type: Editorial

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  20. Climate change and rising sea level will certainly lead to significant changes in the management of low-lying coastal areas in the coming decades. While the most recent studies in the field of coastal storms-r...

    Authors: Paul Durand, Brice Anselme, Stéphanie Defossez, Sylvain Elineau, Monique Gherardi, Lydie Goeldner-Gianella, Esméralda Longépée and Alexandre Nicolae-Lerma

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:19

    Content type: Research

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  22. Monitoring coastal erosion and flooding in deltaic environment is a major challenge. The uncertainties associated with land based methods and remote sensing approaches affect the levels of accuracy, reliabilit...

    Authors: Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe and Francisca Martey

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:17

    Content type: Research article

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  24. This study analyzes individuals’ perceptions of areas exposed to coastal flooding at a local level using sketch mapping methodology. In this way, 318 individuals were surveyed in four coastal municipalities in...

    Authors: Marie Coquet, Denis Mercier and Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:15

    Content type: Research

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  25. Unlike the studies undertaken on agricultural and hydrological sectors, focused climate change vulnerability researches in urban centers in Ethiopia is not widely available and of recent history. However, as m...

    Authors: Getnet Feyissa, Gete Zeleke, Ephrem Gebremariam and Woldeamlak Bewket

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:14

    Content type: Research

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  26. In Italy landslides are widespread natural phenomena causing a significant number of fatalities and huge economic losses throughout the country every year. Information on the spatial and temporal distribution ...

    Authors: Michele Calvello and Gaetano Pecoraro

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:13

    Content type: Database

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  28. Landslides area controversial issue worldwide and cause a wide range of impacts on the socio-economic systems of the affected community. However, empirical studies of affected environments remain inadequate fo...

    Authors: E. N. C. Perera, D. T. Jayawardana, P. Jayasinghe, R. M. S. Bandara and N. Alahakoon

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:11

    Content type: Research

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  31. Floods are the most common and most expensive natural hazard, and they are expected to become more frequent as the climate changes. This article presents research that used re/insurance catastrophe models to e...

    Authors: Jason Thistlethwaite, Andrea Minano, Jordan A. Blake, Daniel Henstra and Daniel Scott

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:8

    Content type: Research

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  34. At the centre of smallholders’ adaptation is a need to understand their perceptions on key climatic scenarios so as to glean helpful information for key decision-making processes. In Kenya at the moment, downs...

    Authors: Harrison K. Simotwo, Stella M. Mikalitsa and Boniface N. Wambua

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:5

    Content type: Research

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  35. The Dharamshala region of Kangra valley, India is one of the fastest developing Himalayan city which is prone to landslide events almost around the year. The development is going on a fast pace which calls for...

    Authors: Swati Sharma and Ambrish Kumar Mahajan

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:4

    Content type: Research

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  37. During an earthquake, significant damage can result due to instability of the soil in the area affected by internal seismic waves. Liquefaction is known as one of the major causes of ground failure due to the ...

    Authors: Mehran Naghizadehrokni, Asskar Janalizadeh Choobbasti and Mohsen Naghizadehrokni

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:2

    Content type: Research

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  38. We examined seven landslide dams and their changes over time in the Peace River region of Canada. These landslides had subchannel rupture surfaces in glacial and glaciolacustrine sediments. We assessed the sta...

    Authors: Brendan Miller, Anja Dufresne, Marten Geertsema, Nigel Atkinson, Heidi Evensen and David Cruden

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:1

    Content type: Research

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  41. Rockfall events are one of the most dangerous phenomena that often cause several damages both to people and facilities. During recent years, the scientific community focused the attention at evaluating the eff...

    Authors: Teresa Gracchi, Alessia Lotti, Gilberto Saccorotti, Luca Lombardi, Massimiliano Nocentini, Francesco Mugnai, Giovanni Gigli, Marco Barla, Andrea Giorgetti, Francesco Antolini, Andrea Fiaschi, Luca Matassoni and Nicola Casagli

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:26

    Content type: Research

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  42. The Atlantic Coast of Morocco is prone to tsunami inundation. Therefore, in this region, earthquake-induced tsunami hazard has been intensively investigated leading to the development of a number of coastal in...

    Authors: Said El Moussaoui, Rachid Omira, Mohamed Najib Zaghloul, Hajar El Talibi and Khadija Aboumaria

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:25

    Content type: Research

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  46. On 25–30 August 2017, the 15th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction has been held in Oki Islands, Matsue and Kyoto, Japan, focusing on the theme of “Global Strategy for Geo-disaster Reduction”. Throu...

    Authors: Zili Dai, Xilin Xia and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:21

    Content type: Editorial

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  48. This paper expands the previous efforts by other researchers to present a quantitative and deterministic approach for terrain analysis. This study evaluates both spatial and temporal factors contributing lands...

    Authors: Saied Pirasteh and Jonathan Li

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:19

    Content type: Research

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  49. Extreme rainfall events are enormously frequent and abrupt in tropical areas like the Jeju Island of South Korea, impacting the hydrological functions as well as the social and economic situation. Rainfall mag...

    Authors: Kanak Kanti Kar, Sung-Kee Yang, Jun-Ho Lee and Fahad Khan Khadim

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:18

    Content type: Research

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  50. The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region being seismically active and sensitive to climate change is prone to glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). The Lemthang Tsho GLOF breached in the evening of 28 July 2015 inn...

    Authors: Deo Raj Gurung, Narendra Raj Khanal, Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya, Karma Tsering, Sharad Joshi, Phuntsho Tshering, Lalit Kumar Chhetri, Yeshey Lotay and Tashi Penjor

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:17

    Content type: Research

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