Most respondents who had experienced the fringe effects of a cyclone overestimated the wind speed in their location. Respondents who overestimated previous cyclone wind speed also predicted less damage from future Category 5 cyclones. This research indicates that overestimating the severity of past ...
2. When we compared tropical cyclone losses and our estimates of urban flood hazards from rainfall, we did not find a correlation. Indeed, damage from tropical storms results from several hazard drivers, including wind, storm surge, and rainfall2. We acknowledge several limitations of our ...
Flows of sediment that move along the seabed (called turbidity currents) form the largest sediment accumulations, deepest canyons and longest channel systems on Earth1,2,3. The scale of individual turbidity currents can also be exceptionally large (Table1). For example, an earthquake-triggered tur...
Fig. 2. The components of the Total Flood Warning System (TFWS) [5]. However, recent post event reviews following significant events in Australia have highlighted failures within the warning systems, not just for flood, but also for other hazards, such as bushfire and tropical cyclone. This ...
Social protection policies rarely integrate climate change concerns strategically while climate policies seldom recognise the potential of social protection in climate change adaptation or mitigation (Berrang-Ford et al., 2021, Tenzing, 2020). In part, this is because the two communities tend to have...
which affects how quickly and even whether stars can form,” said co-author Megan Donahue from Michigan State University. “The ‘Fermi bubbles’ seen in X-rays and gamma rays around our Milky Way’s black hole show the black hole was probably active in the past. Measuring the spin of ou...
I focus on their love of family, their self-respect, and the respect they get from others. These are the important issues that people don’t generally talk about. When I tell the kids at the Juvenile Justice Center that pot affects their liver or heart, that it will change their grade...
Because, as Birchall (2020) reminds us, “until leadership and decision-makers can fully appreciate that persistent extreme weather and climate variability is the new normal, it will remain difficult for communities to implement an agenda for climate change adaptation”. This is the challenge for ...
A psychological model of climate change adaptation influence of resource loss, posttraumatic growth, norms, and risk perception following Cyclone Winston in Fiji. In Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Coastal Communities; Springer: Cham, Switzerland, 2018. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] ...