Review article: Mountain flash floods: from hazard formation to disaster risk reduction pathways

Review article: Mountain flash floods: from hazard formation to disaster risk reduction pathways

Mountain flash floods pose growing risks under climate and environmental change, yet cross-regional understanding of their triggering mechanisms, cascading impacts and governance remains fragmented. This review synthesises 1967 studies published during 2000–2025 using bibliometric and topic analyses with qualitative sy...

Underlying Causes and Drivers of Disasters: A Systematic Integrative Review of Structural Vulnerability, Risk Governance, Development Pathways, and Systemic Risk

Disasters are often identified by the hazard that occurs immediately before them. However, hazard occurrence alone does not explain why similar events result in vastly different human, economic, institutional, and infrastructural impacts. This comprehensive review synthesizes evidence on the fundamental causes and driv...

Flood risk management in Rwanda: A review of basic conditions and recommendations for an enhanced institutional framework

Rwanda faces substantial and growing challenges from flood impacts in both rural and urban areas. This review examines riverine flood events and flood risk management (FRM) in Rwanda, identifying key drivers, institutional developments and persistent gaps. Frequent flooding, which has affected more than 2 million peopl...

Understanding Landslide Risk, Building Resilience: Integrating Science, Policy, and Practice for Safer Communities: The Sierra Leone Experience

Landslides are complex natural hazards resulting from interactions among geological, geomorphological, hydrological, climatic and anthropogenic processes. In Sierra Leone, these risks are intensified by rapid urbanisation, environmental degradation, inadequate land-use planning and limited institutional capacity. The 1...

Can Nature-Based Solutions Reduce Pluvial Flood Risk? A Case Study on an Institutional Complex.

Flood control systems are experiencing increasing pressure and growing threats from the impacts of climate change and urbanization. Nature-based solutions (NbS) provide flood-risk mitigation and ancillary benefits, but their quantitative effectiveness remains inadequately evaluated. This paper aims to provide quantifie...

Consecutive disaster risk management of forest wildfires followed by flooding