Hojjat O. Safari Department of Geology, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran
Hajime Seya Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National
Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan
Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima
University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Dee Shi Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
USA
Heinz Slupetzky Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg,
Bergheim, Austria
Kaoru Takara Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University,
Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Linlin Xu Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Yoshiki Yamagata Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National
Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan
Xiaojun Yang Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL, USA
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