Open database to support forensic investigation of disasters in South East Asia: FORINSEA v1.0

Forensic investigation of disasters (FORIN) is a conceptual framework and research guide that focuses on the investigation of root causes of disaster risk and occurrence. Underlying the FORIN conceptual framework is the understanding that historical processes, operating asynchronously at different spatial and temporal scales, configure the specific circumstances in which disasters occur. An objective of FORIN research is to accumulate lessons and experience in a systematic way that can lead to improved choices in the future. FORINSEA aims to support this objective by providing an open database suitable to FORIN enquiries in South East Asia region. FORINSEA1.0 provides a comprehensive and coherent historical record of disasters, from 1945 until 2020, socio-economic policies and development of key infrastructure at the hydrological catchments of the Red River Delta in Vietnam and the Marikina river basin in the Philippines. The FORINSEA1.0 dataset allows researchers, for the first time, to explore and make use of geocoded data on major disasters affecting the two large and rapidly expanding cities of Hanoi and Metro Manila and their catchment areas.