Flood mortality in SE Asia: Can palaeo-historical information help save lives?

• Main Authors: ZIEGLER, Alan D., LIM, H. S., WASSON, Robert J., WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• 主題: Asia; floods; risk; resilience; historical studies; Asian Studies; Physical and Environmental Geography
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3296; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4558/viewcontent/Flood_mortality_SE_hyp_2020_av.pdf

Asia is one of the world's most flood-prone regions by many metrics: high flood magnitudes, frequency, severity; the number countries affected, the area of inundation; the number of people at risk; and importantly, flood-related fatalities (AIR, 2014; Luo, Maddoks, Iceland, Ward, & Winsemiu...