hazard (frequency, duration, and severity of droughts), drought exposure (water use), and drought vulnerability (unreliable … water supply during prolonged and severe droughts, assessing drought risk becomes one of the key tasks of water … droughts and human socioeconomic factors. An index-based approach is presented in this study to evaluate drought risk at …

earthquake risk. While for earthquake hazard-related investigations, the use of remotely sensed data is an established … considers the assessment of vulnerability and its constituent elements as a pivotal part of a comprehensive risk analysis … survey of the interdisciplinary conceptual literature dealing with the scientific perception of risk, hazard and …

.5 years across the city. We utilized a geographic information system to embed vulnerability and hazard maps as a step to …Understanding the physical vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure to natural hazards is an essential step in … risk assessment for large cities. We have interpreted high spatial resolution images, conducted field surveys, and utilized …

relation with landslide hazard, and their vulnerability is thus established. The landslide risk map presents risk scenarios and … evaluated territory with a final product of landslide hazard or susceptibility map. Elements at risk are defined and analyzed in … risk are not prevail. In the paper presented herein, landslide hazard and risk assessment using bivariate statistical …

conceptual framework, which emphasizes the combined role of hazard and vulnerability in defining risk, is used for the study … through the integration of those thematic maps. The risk is computed as the product of the hazard and vulnerability. The … and preparedness of droughts. This article presents a method for spatial assessment of drought risk in Bangladesh. A …

Information Systems-based assessment of flood and waterlogging vulnerability and risk in northern Bihar plains. Multitemporal … losses due to these hazards indicate the continuing vulnerability of the region to flood and waterlogging. Management of … combining area prone to waterlogging and flood inundation was multiplied with socio-economic vulnerability map to derive the …

assessment of the hazard level, as well as to the vulnerability toward distinct processes, and to the arising risk level. As … overall hazard and consequent risk level as well as to rank threats. In addition, the visualization of a range of natural …Many areas of the world are prone to several natural hazards, and effective risk reduction is only possible if all …

The paper presents a framework for the nation-wide assessment of natural hazards, vulnerability and risk for the … was developed that allowed for the calculation of an overall vulnerability value for each individual hazard type, using …. Secondly, hazard maps were drawn based on an innovative approach of assessing the magnitude and frequency of meteorological …

on the operational risk management’s plan at the organization’s level. The increased dynamic of the problems with social …