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Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment: Combining Multi-Hazards with Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Dynamic Exposure book cover

1st Edition

Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment Combining Multi-Hazards with Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Dynamic Exposure

By Neiler Medina Pena Copyright 2021
328 Pages
by CRC Press

328 Pages
by CRC Press
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Climate change, combined with the rapid and often unplanned urbanisation trends, is associated with a rising trend in the frequency and severity of disasters triggered by natural hazards. In order to face the impacts of such threats, it is necessary to have an appropriate Disaster Risk Assessment (DRA). Traditional DRA approaches for disaster risk reduction (DRR) have focused mainly on the hazard... Read more
  1. Introduction

  2. Capturing Elements Of Vulnerability, Exposure And Risk

  3. Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment in SIDS

  4. Multi-Hazard Modelling

  5. Assessing Exposure To Hurricanes using Evacuation Behaviour

  6. Agent-Based Models for Water-Related Disaster Risk Management

  7. Dynamic Exposure Assessment Using ABM

  8. ADRA -Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment

  9. A Web-Based Application for Emergency Management

  10. Outlook

Biography

Neiler Medina is a PhD researcher in Urban Water Systems at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands. Neiler obtained his BSc, in Sanitary Engineering, a post-graduate certificate as a specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and his MSc in Water Science and Engineering, specialization Hydroinformatics from UNESCO-IHE. Mr Medina is an experienced water engineer with an extensive background in modelling water systems, focus on urban drainage and sewerage networks. His expertise also includes disaster risk assessment/management for hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods and hurricanes, including hazard modelling, socioeconomic vulnerability and exposure assessment and mapping.

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