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Displaying 15 of about 43 resultsThis map shows the relative earthquake risk and the exposed annual GDP to earthquake risk as a ratio of the total GDP for each of the 143 municipalities in Bosnia Herzegovina.
The seismic data was calculated using an earthquake distribution grid investigating concentration and probability of earthquake events above magnitude 4 on the Richter scale with…
This map shows the relative earthquake risk and the population exposed to earthquake risk as a ratio of the total population across municipalities in Bosnia Herzegovina.
This flood hazard map is based on analysis of flood events 1999-2014. The raster data shows the number of square kilometer flooded multiplied by the frequency of flooding events in all municipalities in Bosnia Herzegovina. The colour coding of municipalities indicates the relative level of flood risk.
This earthquake hazard map is based on analysis of earthquake events from 1950 to 2015. The colour coding of municipalities indicates the relative level of earthquake risk. The map sums the number and magnitude of seismic events above 4 on the Richter scale within municipal borders.
Historical losses due to tropical cyclones have been found to increase less than linearly with a nation's affected gross domestic product (GDP). This document demonstrates that for the United States this scaling is caused by a sub-linear increase with affected population while relative losses scale super-linearly with per capita income. The finding is r…
Kathmandu is the world’s most seismically at-risk urban area. As a result, beginning in November 2012, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the World Bank launched the Open Cities Kathmandu Project. Through this project, university students, volunteers, and government officials were trained to digitally map their communiti…
This guide provides the first standard method for conducting geospatially-based damage assessments through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. The “BAR Methodology” offers potential improvements to wind disaster damage assessments in terms of providing responding agencies with previously unavailable information about hard to reach, often non-pe…
This paper presents a technique identifying the relationships between spatial and non-spatial data essential to the post- disaster risk reduction at the local scale. The obtain information derives from the deep insight interviews of affected people regarding issues associated with spatial aspects in a disaster event. The explored issues regarding the in…
Natural Hazards Earth System Science, 16, pp. 529–542, 2016, doi:10.5194/nhess-16-529-2016:
This study builds on previous work by improving access to fault information through a web-based interactive map and an online database with search capabilities that allow users to organize data by different fields. The data presented in this compilation include f…
Erdkunde 2015, Vol 69, Issue 4, 307-325, doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2015.04.02:
Taking Musikot in Nepal as a characteristic case study of rapid urban change, this article analyses its increasing local earthquake-risk in light of insufficient seismic building code implementation and risk-sensitive urban planning. Applying an approach that combines repeat phot…
This publication seeks to enhance the understanding of, and boost resilience to, water stress conditions in drought-prone areas, using the FAO Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). In order to boost the resilience of livelihoods to threats arising from climate change, and especially drought events, it is primordial to identify drought…
Natural Hazards, March 2016, pp. 1-21, doi:10.1007/s11069-016-2291-3:
This paper presents a common methodology for risk assessment and mapping for climate change-related hazards, developed within the EU-funded project SEERISK “Joint disaster management risk assessment and preparedness for the Danube macro-region”. The methodology presented is in line w…
Open-File Report 2015-1154, doi:10.3133/ofr20151154:
This report identifies all the impacts of extreme storms in coastal communities of mid and northeast Atlantic coast of the United States. It quantifies the probabilities of dune erosion, dune overwash, and beach/dune inundation when impacted by the worst-case scenario (high tide, maximum surge, maximu…
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information 2015, 4(4), 2704-2727; doi:10.3390/ijgi4042704:
This paper presents both current advances and limitations of the available models for consequence estimation in flood risk analysis. It aims to organize the available knowledge and characteristics of the methods available into operational recommendations and p…
Each year Australia is prone to potential negative and devastating impacts of bushfires and other natural hazards, highlighting the importance of community engagement in disaster risk reduction. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is an emerging technology that allows members of the public to voluntarily contribute geographic information, predomina…