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This issue features assessment studies on the: 1) risks, sense of place, and preparedness of communities along a river; 2) climate change and civil-military coordination; 3) adaptive capacity to flooding of household in lakeshore communities; 4) disaster preparedness index of households and LGUs; 5) risk and impacts of tropical cyclones on banana production in the Philippines.

This issue features assessment studies on the: 1) harvesting and managing rainwater using collapsible rubber tanks; 2) simulating impacts of ENSO and climate change on sugar cane production in Negros Occidental Province, Philippines; 3) impacts of carbon dioxide emissions on global intense hydrometeorological disasters; 4) Philippine institutions and complex institutional arrangements for climate change adaptation in agriculture; and 5) climate change impacts and transformative adaptation strategies among farming households in the city of Koronadal, Philippines.

This issue features assessment studies on the: 1) status of typhoon-affected reefs in Leyte Gulf, Philippines; 2) resilience of water resources in Tacloban, Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan; 3) adaptation gaps in the post-Typhoon Bopha recovery and reconstruction in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines; 4) transportation resilience in Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan; and 5) adaptive capacities of local communities to flashfloods and landslides in Compostela Valley after Typhoon Bopha.

This features six articles on: 1) assessing of a planned observing site toward quantifying atmospheric carbon; 2) demonstrating the use of statistical downscaling technique to determine future precipitation scenarios; 3) assessing the role of traditional ecological knowledge in disaster risk management of island communities; 4) exploring the potential of the tourism industry in small island developing states in financing its own climate change adaptation; 5) assessing the adaptive capacity of indigenous peoples to changing climate; and 6) determining the effects of flooding and assessing the adaptive capacity of farming households.

This features four articles that focus on developing a crowdsourcing model for medical and disaster response, addressing the projected increase in corn yield due to climate change, and designing better risk communication materials.

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