1. Editorial

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 307 - 308

2. The Impact of `Greater Dhaka Flood Protection Project' (GDFPP) on Local Living Environment – The Attitude of the Floodplain Residents

   • Md. Rashed Chowdhury

   OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 324

3. Study on a Simplified Method of Tsunami Risk Assessment

   • Hiroaki Sato
   • Hitoshi Murakami
   • Naoaki Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 340

4. Process of Housing Damage Assessment: The 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Case

   • Kei Horie
   • Norio Maki
   • Haruo Hayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 370

5. A New Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Vrancea (Romania) Seismogenic Zone

   • P. Mäntyniemi
   • V. Mârza
   • P. Retief

   OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 385

6. Building Damage and Casualties after an Earthquake

   • Lu Hengjian
   • Masayuki Kohiyama
   • Satoshi Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 387 - 403

7. Patterns of Coping and Adaptation Among Erosion-Induced Displacees in Bangladesh: Implications for Hazard Analysis and Mitigation

   • David Hutton
   • C. Emdad Haque

   OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 421

8. Far-Field Tsunami Potential and a Real-Time Forecast System for the Pacific Using the Inversion Method

   • Nobuaki Koike
   • Yoshiaki Kawata
   • Fumihiko Imamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 436

9. Tsunami Hazard in the Eastern Mediterranean: Strong Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Corinth Gulf, Central Greece

   • Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 464

10. Perspectives of Natural Disasters in East and South Asia, and the Pacific Island States: Socio-economic Correlates and Needs Assessment

    • C. Emdad Haque

    OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 483

11. Causes of the Unusual Coastal Flooding Generated by Typhoon Winnie on the West Coast of Korea

    • I.-J. Moon
    • I. S. Oh
    • Y.-H. Youn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 500

12. Expansion of the Nishinomiya Built Environment Database

    • Masayuki Kohiyama
    • Norihiko Yamashita
    • Haruo Hayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 522

13. Soil Condition and Seismic Characteristics in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

    • Teizo Fujiwara
    • Kazumasa Fukumoto
    • Takeshi Morii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 542

14. Comparison of Hail Characteristics in NW Croatia for Two Periods

    • Damir Počakal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 552

15. First-Aid Transportation by Hovercraft in a Disaster

    • Syozo Kubo
    • Hiromichi Akimoto
    • Takumi Moriwake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 566

16. Life Recovery of 1995 Kobe Earthquake Survivors in Nishinomiya City: A Total-Quality-Management-Based Assessment of Disadvantaged Populations

    • Joe Takeda
    • Keiko Tamura
    • Shigeo Tatsuki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 567 - 585

17. A Human Damage Prediction Method for Tsunami Disasters Incorporating Evacuation Activities

    • T. Sugimoto
    • H. Murakami
    • T. Shimada

    OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 602

18. Contents of Volume 29

    Volume Contents Pages: 603 - 606