Asian policymakers need to know how changes in land uses and practices related to forests affect flooding, dry season stream flow, and water quality. Based on their beliefs about these relations, policymakers often ban logging or introduce expensive projects. Many key stakeholders believe that lo...
Evidence is presented to show that there is a growing disparity between public perception and scientific evidence relating to the causes of floods, their impacts, and the benefits of mitigation measures. It is suggested that this disparity has arisen through the extensive promotion of certain lan...
Calder, I. R. C.
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Aylward, B.
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[Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management]
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Forest and floods: Moving to an evidence-based approach to watershed and integrated flood management
Paper presented at the 37th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS): Promoting Spatial Data Infrastructure for Sustainable Economic Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 17-21 October 2016.
Beginning on 14 May 2016, a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal caused torrential rain to fall
across Sr...
Alahacoon, Niranga
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Pani, Peejush
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Matheswaran, Karthikeyan
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Samansiri, Srimal
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Amarnath, Giriraj
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[Rapid emergency response mapping for the 2016 floods in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka]
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Rapid emergency response mapping for the 2016 floods in Kelani river basin, Sri Lanka
There is a tendency to blame all natural disasters on human abuse of the natural environment. This is no more evident than in the case of devastating floods and landslides that affect the personal and economic fortunes of millions of people every year. Each disaster is followed by a predictable r...
There is a tendency to blame all natural disasters on human abuse of the natural environment. This is no more evident than in the case of devastating floods and landslides that affect the personal and economic fortunes of millions of people every year. Each disaster is followed by a predictable r...
There is a tendency to blame all natural disasters on human abuse of the natural environment. This is no more evident than in the case of devastating floods and landslides that affect the personal and economic fortunes of millions of people every year. Each disaster is followed by a predictable r...
There is a tendency to blame all natural disasters on human abuse of the natural environment. This is no more evident than in the case of devastating floods and landslides that affect the personal and economic fortunes of millions of people every year. Each disaster is followed by a predictable r...
Wells, J.A.
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Wilson, K.A.
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Abram, N.K.
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Nunn, M.
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Gaveau, D.L.A.
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Runting, R.K.
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Tarniati, N.
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Mengersen, K.L.
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Meijaard, E.
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[Rising floodwaters: mapping impacts and perceptions of flooding in Indonesian Borneo]
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Rising floodwaters: mapping impacts and perceptions of flooding in Indonesian Borneo
Gutiérrez Rodríguez, L.
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Hogarth, N.J.
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Zhou, W.
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Xie, Chen.
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Zhang, Kun.
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Putzel, L.
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[China's conversion of cropland to forest program: a systematic review of the environmental and socioeconomic effects]
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China's conversion of cropland to forest program: a systematic review of the environmental and socioeconomic effects
Bennet, M.T
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Xie, C
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Hogarth, N.J
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Peng, D
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Putzel, L.
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[China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program for household delivery of ecosystem services: how important is a local implementation regime to survival rate outcomes?]
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China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program for household delivery of ecosystem services: how important is a local implementation regime to survival rate outcomes?