Understanding the physical vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure to natural hazards is an essential step in … numerical simulations, in order to assess vulnerability across Arequipa, south Peru, close to the active El Misti volcano. The ….5 years across the city. We utilized a geographic information system to embed vulnerability and hazard maps as a step to …

Researchers have recently examined the geographic variability of the vulnerability of populations to earthquakes. These … populations. However, no studies to date have integrated different components of vulnerability with metrics of travel distance to … hospitals and trauma centres (systemic vulnerability). We argue that this previously unaccounted component is an important …

. Second, given the characteristics of residences in waterlogging, the vulnerability of residences was expressed as the … East Road, Laoximen, Zhapu Road, North Station, and Tilanqiao are the most vulnerable ones, while there is no vulnerability … was quantified by multiplying the exposure value with vulnerability value of residences. The results reveal that Laoximen …

conceptual framework, which emphasizes the combined role of hazard and vulnerability in defining risk, is used for the study …. Standardized precipitation index method in a GIS environment is used to map the spatial extents of drought hazards in different … time steps. The key social and physical factors that define drought vulnerability in the context of Bangladesh are …

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