risk assessment for large cities. We have interpreted high spatial resolution images, conducted field surveys, and utilized ….5 years across the city. We utilized a geographic information system to embed vulnerability and hazard maps as a step to … calculate risk for buildings and bridges along the Río Chili valley and two tributaries. A survey of ~1,000 buildings from 46 …

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 … flood-waterlogging risk map of the region. The result shows that flood and water-logging pose highest risk to the central … districts in the northern Bihar plains with 50.95% of the total area under high and very high risk. Copyright Springer Science …

the view that although susceptibility zoning maps represent a powerful tool in natural hazard management, caution is …

mitigation. The objectives of this paper are to provide landslide hazard and risk assessment that will be useful for risk … causing landslides. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the ways to map landslide risk in order to improve the risk … prevention and landuse planning in the Menoreh Mountains. So far, risk management has been developed by the Research Centre for …

System (GIS) to construct andto overlay thematic maps. The risk map has beenderived from the vulnerability map, the hazard …, represented by the wells. Thegroundwater quality map allowed thereliability of hazard and risk maps to be tested. The final map … shows interesting results and stressesthe need for the GIS to test and improve on thegroundwater contamination risk …