Integrating Disaster Science and Management

Dr. Samui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at NIT Patna, India. He received his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, in 2008. His research interests include geohazard, earthquake engineering, concrete technology, pile foundation and slope stability, and application of AI for solving different problems in civil engineering. Dr. Samui is a repeat Elsevier editor but also a prolific contributor to journal papers, book chapters, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dookie Kim is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kongju National University ,1223-24 Cheonan-daero, 31080, Republic of Korea. Professor Kim has a broad experience in structural dynamics. He published journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and 2 books. Dr. Chandan Ghosh is Professor & Head, Geohazards and Risk Management Division, National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. His areas of expertise are disaster resistant housing technologies, retrofitting and earthquake risk mitigation and management.

• I. Assessment and Mitigation1. A Risk Index for Mitigating Earthquake Damage in Urban Structures2. Importance of Geological Sutdies in Earthquake Hazard Assessment3. Assessment of Soil Liquefaction Based on Capacity Energy Concept and Back-Propagation Neural Networks4. Recent Earthquakes and Volcanic Activities in Kyushu Island, Japan5. Winter Storms6. Spatial Association Between Forest Fires Incidence and Socioeconomic Vulnerability in Portugal, at Municipal Level7. Landslide Risk Assessment in Parts of the Darjeeling Himalayas, India8. Forest and Land Fires in Indonesia: Assessment and Mitigation9. Lessons from Tsunami Recovery Towards Guidelines of Housing Provision in Malaysia10. Drought Prediction with Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index and Support Vector Regression ModelsII. Recovery and Management11. Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal 12. Urban Flood Management in Coastal Regions Using Numerical Simulation and Geographic Information System13. Probabilistic Analysis Applied to Rock Slope Stability: A Case Study from Northeast Turkey14. Civic Fire Control System for Historic District in Kiyomizu, Kyoto—Development Projects and Its Techniques for "Environmental Water Supply System (EWSS) for Disaster Prevention" to Protect Traditional Wooden Cultural Heritage Zones from Postearthquake Fire15. Systematic Engineering Approaches for Ensuring Safe RoadsIII. Analysis and Resilience16. Big Data Analytics and Social Media in Disaster Management17. Risk Assessment and Reduction Measures in Landslide and Flash Flood-Prone Areas: A Case of Southern Thailand (Nakhon Si Thammarat Province)18.  Advancements in Understanding the Radon Signal in Volcanic Areas: A Laboratory Approach Based on Rock Physicochemical Changes19. GIS Based Macrolevel Landslide Hazard Zonation, Using Newmark's Methodology20. What Behaviors We Think We Do When a Disaster Strikes: Misconceptions and Realities of Human Disaster Behavior21. A Quantitative Study of Social Cpaital in the Tertiary Sector of Kobe—Has Social Capital promoted Economic Reconstruction Since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake?22. Resilience and Vulnerability: Older Adults and the Brisbane Floods23. Postdisaster Relief Distribution Network Design Under Disruption Risk: A Tour Covering Location-Routing Approach24. Climate Change and Typhoons in the Philippines: Extreme Weather Events in the Anthropocene25. The Role of Disaster Medicine in Disaster Management and Preparedness26. Earthquake-Triggered Landslide Modeling and Deformation Analysis Related to 2005 Kashmir Earthquake Using Satellite Imagery27. Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Moisture and Drought Estimation Using a Distributed Hydrological Model