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Zafeiria Theodosopoulou, Ioannis M. Kourtis, Vasilis Bellos, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, Chryssy Potsiou and Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Post-disaster flood risk assessment is extremely difficult owing to the great uncertainties involved in all parts of the assessment exercise, e.g., the uncertainty of hydrologic?hydraulic models and depth?damage curves. In the present study, a robust and...
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Tai-Li Lee, Ching-Ho Chen, Tzu-Yi Pai and Ray-Shyan Wu
This study involved developing a natural disaster risk assessment framework based on the consideration of three phases: a pre-disaster phase, disaster impact phase, and post-disaster recovery phase. The exposure of natural disasters exhibits unique chara...
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Raffaele Albano and Aurelia Sole
In the last decade, real-time access to data and the use of high-resolution spatial information have provided scientists and engineers with valuable information to help them understand risk. At the same time, there has been a rapid growth of novel and cu...
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Salvatore Manfreda, Caterina Samela, Alberto Refice, Valerio Tramutoli and Fernando Nardi
The last decades have seen a massive advance in technologies for Earth observation (EO) and environmental monitoring, which provided scientists and engineers with valuable spatial information for studying hydrologic processes. At the same time, the power...
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Mathavanayakam Sathurshan, Aslam Saja, Julian Thamboo, Masahiko Haraguchi and Satheeskumar Navaratnam
Critical infrastructures such as transportation, power, telecommunication, water supply, and hospitals play a vital role in effectively managing post-disaster responses. The resilience of critical infrastructures should be incorporated in the planning an...
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Giacomo Buffarini, Paolo Clemente, Sonia Giovinazzi, Chiara Ormando, Maurizio Pollino and Vittorio Rosato
A procedure for assessing and monitoring the response of critical infrastructures when subjected to natural hazards is proposed in this paper, with a particular focus on bridges and viaducts, which are very peculiar and strategic assets of transport netw...
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Lin Zhou, Wei Hu, Zhen Jia, Xinfang Li, Yaru Li, Tianyun Su and Qingsheng Guo
For improved prevention and reduction of marine disasters, China?s marine authorities and emergency response agencies require a solution that provides risk assessment, early warning, and decision-making support. This paper proposes a comprehensive approa...
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Huicong Jia, Fang Chen, Jing Zhang and Enyu Du
A vulnerability curve is an important tool for the rapid assessment of drought losses, and it can provide a scientific basis for drought risk prevention and post-disaster relief. Those populations with difficulty in accessing drinking water because of dr...
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Jinyan Sun, Lei Ding, Jiaze Li, Haiming Qian, Mengting Huang and Nan Xu
The spatial extent and area of river islands are always changing due to the impact of hydrodynamic conditions, sediment supply and human activities. A catastrophic flood disaster was driven by sustained and heavy rainfall around the middle and lower Yang...
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