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This study explores the concept of buildings as the smallest unit of urban space, wherein the distribution characteristics of risk factors were examined by building use as an adaptable measure for urban flooding disasters.

 This study explores the implications of the frequency of the Korean Public Alert Service (KPAS) through an online survey. Since 2005, the South Korean government has been using the service to issuing emergency alerts to mobile devices.

This G20 Climate Risk Atlas factsheets sheds light on the risks faced by South Korea. The G20 Climate Risk Atlas is the contribution of the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change to ensure attentive and well-informed climate action

This study examines diverging conceptualizations of Nature-based solutions (NBS), as well as the attitudinal (e.g., emotions and beliefs) and contextual (e.g., legal and political aspects) barriers and drivers of NBS for flood risks in South Korea.

This booklet includes 14 best practices on the application of technology for reducing disaster risks from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in which the experience, impacts and results, lessons and relevant challenges are introduced.

This research characterizes risk communication patterns by analyzing public discourse on the novel coronavirus in four Asian countries that suffered outbreaks of varying degrees of severity: South Korea, Iran, Vietnam, and India. 

As disasters and systems become more complex, disaster models combining diverse aspects including climatic, social, economic, and environmental factors are necessary. For this study, the researchers set a model using the concept of risk by identifying

This fourth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2014) from a climate perspective is the most extensive yet with 33 different research groups exploring the causes of 29 different events that occurred in 2014. A number of this year’s