Coastal living countries are the frontline of climate change impacts presenting vulnerability to natural disasters and other climate hazards. Specially, in developing countries, there is greater vulnerability and environmental ...

We study how the local institutional context shapes local government decisions about responses to perceived threats of natural disasters and climatic change. We draw on institutional theories and field observations to ...

Steganography is one of protective methods for secret communications over public networks such as the Internet. This paper proposes a novel reversible information hiding method for vector quantization (VQ) compressed images ...

Climate change presents substantial risks to the health of Indigenous peoples. Research is needed to inform health policy and practice for managing risks, with community based adaptation (CBA) emerging as one approach to ...

Scholars and policy makers recognize that adaptation to changes in climatic and environmental conditions is critical, particularly at the local level. An increasing number of recent studies examine the conditions under ...