6th Regional training course GIS (advanced) for disaster risk management - level II
This course deals with the procedures to collect and analyse spatial data for hazard and risk assessments for various natural and human-induced hazards, providing a number of choice options to the professionals participating in this course (depending on their interests and background) for evaluating specific types of hazards and associated risk.
Objective
The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge and skills in multi-hazard risk assessment to the professionals with GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) background. Participants will gain practical knowledge on uses of GIS and RS not only in hazard and risk assessment, but also in loss estimation and multi-criteria analysis for taking a decision.
Course content
Module–I: Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk (HVR)
• Introduction to HVR
• Spatial characteristics of HVR
• Spatial data sources and referencing systems
• Role of GIS and RS for HVR assessment
Module–II: Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
• Introduction to multi-hazard risk assessment
• Elements at risk and their classifications
• Elements at risk mapping and database creation
• Spatial analysis for multi-hazard risk assessment
• HVR assessment for floods/earthquakes/ landslides Module–III: Loss Estimation
• Loss estimation techniques • Risk curves and estimation of annual loss
• Loss estimations for multi-hazards
Module–IV: Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Tangible and intangible damages
• Financial and economic evaluations
• Cost-benefits analysis of DRR measures
Module–V: Participatory GIS (PGIS)
• Introduction to PGIS • Designing a PGIS project
• Data collection and implementation
Module–VI: Project
• Participants will be assigned small projects related to use of spatial data in risk assessment and necessary guidance will be provided.