NH33B
Hydrometeorological and Geophysical Hazards and Disasters in Developing Countries: Risk Perception, Management, and Adaptation II Posters

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Yuri Gorokhovich, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States
Conveners:  Elia Machado, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States, Opha Pauline Dube, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana and Jean Patricia Palutikof, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University, QLD, Australia
Chairs:  Opha Pauline Dube, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana and Jean P Palutikof, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University, Australia; University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
OSPA Liaisons:  Elia Machado, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY, United States
 
ADDRESSING DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (59706)
Balgis M.E Osman Elasha, African Development Bank, ORQR, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire
 
Land use and Hydrological Characteristics of Volcanic Urban Soils for Flood Susceptibility Modeling, Ciudad de Colima (Mexico) (65774)
Myrna LORENA Perez Gonzalez1, Lucia Capra1, Lorenzo Borselli2 and Azalea Ortiz2, (1)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)UASLP Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Geology, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
 
Climate Change Adaptation and Climate Related Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies in Zimbabwe and Malawi (69780)
Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Directorate of Research and Resource Mobilisation, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
 
Human uses of forested watersheds and riparian corridors: hazard mitigation as an ecosystem service, with examples from Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela (58868)
Matthew Carl Larsen, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama
 
Quality of cyclone early warning services: a case study in remote off-shore island in Bangladesh (62256)
Sezan Mahmud, Zerin Marzan Ashrafi and A Q M Mahbub, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Scientific Communication for Positive Action: Do’s and Don’ts (75484)
Michele Marie Wood, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States and Anne Sanquini, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Development of Storm Surge Hazard Maps and Advisory System for the Philippines (78288)
Carl Vincent Cabral Caro1, Joy Toriol Santiago2, John Kenneth Belena Suarez3, Judd Pe Tablazon4, Lea L. Dasallas5 and Alfredo Mahar Francisco Amante Lagmay4, (1)Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project NOAH), Department of Science and Technology, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, Quezon City, Philippines, (5)Science Research Specialist, Storm Surge Component-Project NOAH, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Vulnerability of Eastern Caribbean Islands Economies to Large Earthquakes: The Trinidad and Tobago Case Study (83789)
Lloyd Lynch, University of the West Indies, Seismic research Centre, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
 
URBAN FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER UNCERTAIN CONDITIONS AND SCARCE INFORMATION (85260)
Edna Margarita Rodríguez-Gaviria1,2, Verónica Catalina Botero-Fernández1 and Grupo de Investigaci, (1)Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Medellin, Colombia, (2)Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
 
Ecological applications for flood hazard minimization in the Siwaliks region of Nepal (86818)
Yam Prasad Dhital1,2 and Qiuhong Tang2, (1)Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, (2)IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Deltaic margins vulnerability: the role of landscape patches in flood regulation and climate adaptation (Invited) (78303)
Andrea Taramelli1,2, Emiliana Valentini2, Alessandra Nguyen Xuan1, Federico Filipponi2, Chiara Casarotti1 and Arianna Morelli1, (1)Eucentre Foundation, European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Pavia, Italy, (2)Institute for Environmental Protection and the Environmental Research, Rome, Italy
 
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