whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …Individual risk preference may change after experiencing external socio-economic or natural shocks. Theoretical … predictions and empirical studies suggest that risk taking may increase or decrease after experiencing shocks. So far the …

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 …