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Economic Hotspots: Visualizing Vulnerability to Flooding

Veen, Anne; Logtmeijer, Christiaan - In: Natural Hazards 36 (2005) 1, pp. 65-80

it is for flooding. Vulnerability of economic activities is then visualized in a GIS. Kernel density estimation is …, we are able to create maps of economic hotspots. Our simulation of a flood in the centre of Holland reveals the …

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Coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise: a spatial–temporal assessment framework

Sahin, Oz; Mohamed, Sherif - In: Natural Hazards 70 (2014) 1, pp. 395-414

The scientific community is confident that warming of the Earth’s climate is unequivocal. Sea-level rise, which poses potential threats to coastal areas, is one of the most recognised possible impacts of this climate change. The nonlinearities, complexities, and spatial and temporal lags are...

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Drought risk assessment in the western part of Bangladesh

Shahid, Shamsuddin; Behrawan, Houshang - In: Natural Hazards 46 (2008) 3, pp. 391-413

. Standardized precipitation index method in a GIS environment is used to map the spatial extents of drought hazards in different …

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Volcanic Risk Assessment and Mapping in the Vesuvian Area Using GIS

Lirer, Lucio; Vitelli, Livia - In: Natural Hazards 17 (1998) 1, pp. 1-15

Geographical Information System (GIS). The intense urbanisation and dense population near Mt. Vesuvius make the area very hazardous …. Due to the large amount of available data, GIS is an essential tool to facilitate risk evaluation and constant monitoring … the GIS database and linked to each appropriate geographic unit in order to create a set of reference maps at the 1:50 000 …

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A GIS Process for Delimitating Areas Potentially Endangered by Debris Flow

Yu, Fan-Chieh; Chen, Chien-Yuan; Chen, Tien-Chien; … - In: Natural Hazards 37 (2006) 1, pp. 169-189

A GIS rules-based approach is proposed for delimiting areas potentially endangered by debris flow for downstream …. The GIS processes for applying the rules are linked to delimit hazardous areas affected by debris within the first …

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Use of satellite remote sensing data in the mapping of global landslide susceptibility

Hong, Yang; Adler, Robert; Huffman, George - In: Natural Hazards 43 (2007) 2, pp. 245-256

on the recent advances in satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, this paper aims to … map landslide susceptibility over most of the globe using a GIS-based weighted linear combination method. First, six … relevant landslide-controlling factors are derived from geospatial remote sensing data and coded into a GIS system. Next …

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Analysis of the relationship between the stream regulations and the geomorphologic effects of floods

Langhammer, Jakub - In: Natural Hazards 54 (2010) 1, pp. 121-139

distribution of flood effects and stream modifications acquired by field survey and completed by historical maps and digital … relationship between stream modifications and the occurrence of geomorphic effects of the flood. The cluster analysis detected … demonstrates the potentially critical combinations of stream modifications related to the occurrence of flood effects. Copyright …

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A 3-tier tsunami vulnerability assessment technique for the north-west coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Ismail, H.; Wahab, A. Abd; Amin, M. Mohd; Yunus, M. Mohd; … - In: Natural Hazards 63 (2012) 2, pp. 549-573

scenarios. At this stage, highly impacted areas were selected for an assessment of the local hazards in the form of local flood … maps based on the inundation modelling output. Tsunami heights and flood depths obtained from these maps were then used to … highly vulnerable to a maximum tsunami run-up and flood event. The final stage is the development of the Structural …

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Mapping Disastrous Natural Hazards Using Global Datasets

PEDUZZI, P.; HEROLD, H. - In: Natural Hazards 35 (2005) 2, pp. 265-289

, cyclones and volcanoes) using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and available global datasets. Up to 82% of the events and …

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A prototype system for space–time assessment of rainfall-induced shallow landslides in Italy

Montrasio, Lorella; Valentino, Roberto; Corina, Angela; … - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 2, pp. 1263-1290

In the last decades, physically based distributed models turned out rather promising to achieve the space–time assessment of shallow landslides at large spatial scale. This technical note deals with the application of a physically based stability model named Shallow Landslides Instability...

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