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 …

of both the expected hazard (frequency and magnitude) and the vulnerability of exposed elements. This paper presents a … GIS-based methodology to produce qualitative to semi-qualitative thematic risk assessments for tephra fallout around …, concern even remote communities. To address these issues, we have assessed the vulnerability and the risk levels for five …

In this study, the spatial characteristics of agricultural drought vulnerability in China were investigated using a GIS …-based agricultural drought vulnerability assessment model, which was constructed by selecting three agricultural drought vulnerability … indicators of agricultural drought vulnerability in China. The study showed that the distribution of seasonal crop moisture …

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 …

of both the expected hazard (frequency and magnitude) and the vulnerability of exposed elements. This paper presents a … GIS-based methodology to produce qualitative to semi-qualitative thematic risk assessments for tephra fallout around …, concern even remote communities. To address these issues, we have assessed the vulnerability and the risk levels for five …

interactions. A GIS-based multicriteria flood risk assessment methodology was therefore developed and applied for the mapping of … is applied to the Greater Athens area and validated for its central and most urban part. A GIS database of economic … flood risk map of the area. To implement this methodology, the IDRISI Andes GIS software was customized and used. It is …

the potential of ground water for pollution. For this purpose intrinsic vulnerability was assessed using SINTACS model … with the aid of geographic information system (GIS) techniques. The final results show that about 40% of the investigated … vulnerability category. To validate the model results, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out to assess the influence of each …

This paper presents a spatial-temporal groundwater vulnerability assessment, based on a coupled remote sensing and GIS … vulnerability assessment in fresh water systems. The transboundary watershed of the Águeda River was used as an experimental case … study where the DRASTIC and DRASTIC pesticide indices and the Susceptibility Index (SI) were used for vulnerability …