Sustainability (MDPI)

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Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; CODEN: SUSTDE) is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings.

Sustainability provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semi-monthly online by MDPI.

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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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23 October 2024

Flood susceptibility and risk mapping of Kathmandu Valley Watershed, Nepal

This study produced spatial multi-criteria-based flood susceptibility, vulnerability, and risk index maps for the Kathmandu Valley (KV) watershed in Nepal using an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach and Geographical Information System (GIS).

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5 April 2024

Understanding the sustainable development of community (social) disaster resilience in Serbia: Demographic and socio-economic impacts

This paper presents the results of quantitative research examining the impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on the sustainable development of community disaster resilience.

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11 December 2023

Narrative-based disaster learning programmes simultaneously improve people’s disaster awareness scores, willingness to pay and settlement preferences

This study provides causal evidence, of the extent to which information provided by an unspecified number of people—and stories of those suffering because of a disaster—can effectively change people’s awareness of disaster prevention.

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11 December 2023

Effective communication of coastal flood warnings: Challenges and recommendations

This publication delivers a review investigation of the current CFWs in the USA and Canada based on their setup and dissemination, and a case study of two representative coastal flooding events.

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5 September 2023

Safety culture in the disaster-resilient society context: a conceptual exploration

This article offers a theoretical framework to contextualise the concept of “Safety Culture” in the field of public safety and DRR, with the aim of supporting its understanding and measurement in our communities.

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26 May 2023

Digital ethnography? Our experiences in the use of SenseMaker for understanding gendered climate vulnerabilities amongst marginalized agrarian communities

The authors piloted SenseMaker, a digital ethnography tool designed to capture individual, embodied experiences, biases, and perceptions to map vulnerabilities and resilience to climate impacts in the Gaya District in Bihar.

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21 March 2022

Impact of coastal disasters on women in urban slums: a new index

The current study developed a novel gender-specific Women’s Coastal Vulnerability Index (WCVI) to assess the impact of coastal disasters on women and their preparedness in Vijayawada, India.

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17 January 2022

Dynamic flood resilience typology: A systemic transitional adaptation from Peitou Plateau, Taiwan

This study incorporates the notion of “Transitional Progress” as an available scoping tool pin-pointing the human-habitat domain. The aim is to determine the resilience ability as it bounces forth as determined by the interacting parts in such.