Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cádiz, Spain

Jelínek, Róbert; Elisabeth, Krausmann; González, M.; Álvarez‐Gómez, José A.; Birkmann, Joern; Welle, Torsten

doi:10.1007/s11069-011-0009-0

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“…Welle and Birkmann 2015;Birkmann and Welle 2016) and to multiple stressors (O'Brien et al 2004). Moreover, there are assessment methods which incorporate socioeconomic aspects for specific hazards, like heat waves and flooding (Depietri et al 2013;Welle et al 2014), flash floods (Karagiorgos et al 2016), tsunamis (Jelínek et al 2012;Birkmann et al 2010), or with focus on flood risk in areas with cultural heritage (Vojinovic et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The index was calculated for nine cities and results in a vulnerability value per city which makes the cities around the world comparable (despite different kinds of exposure). There are various publications on the risk assessment to tsunamis for the city of Cádiz, Spain (Birkmann et al 2010;Jelínek et al 2012), which built on an adapted BBC framework (Bogardi, Birkmann, Cardona Framework developed in 2004, for more details see Birkmann 2013b: 54). Here, vulnerability is measured based on exposure, susceptibility and coping capacity.…”

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Capturing the multifaceted phenomena of socioeconomic vulnerability

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Vulnerability and disaster risk assessment has been evaluated from different perspectives with focus on global or national scale. There is a lack of methodologies on city scale, which are able to capture inner-city disparities with regard to socioeconomic aspects. Therefore, the main objective was to develop a transparent and comprehensive indicator-based approach which is flexible in terms of data availability and is not tied to a specific case study side. This research proposes two flexible methodological approaches on how to perform socioeconomic vulnerability assessment. Susceptibility, Coping and Adaptation are the main elements of a modular hierarchical structure to capture the societal sphere of vulnerability. The first method is completely based on official census data at block scale. The second method is an expansion and includes data derived from a field survey to add components of risk perception. The proposed methodologies were developed and applied in the city of Genoa (Italy). The results are displayed spatially explicit on maps. Furthermore statistical analysis, to reveal the driving forces which influence vulnerability, was performed. The census-based approach revealed that vulnerability is forced along the river by the inherent susceptibility, as well as the lack of adaptation. The two approaches can be used effectively in gaining different insights. The flexibility of the framework proved to be suitable to the objective of the research. However, the values computed in this research do not claim completeness, and the aim was to provide useful information for stakeholders in decision making process to reduce vulnerability and risk.

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“…Risk factors were integrated into a matrix (Eckert et al, 2012;Jelínek et al, 2012;Martínez et al, 2012) and three risk levels were obtained from the multiplication: high, medium and low, with scores from 1 to 9 (Table 4). Risk level is applied to analysis units, according to pre-and post-event conditions, in the GIS vulnerability section.…”

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Risk factors and perceived restoration in a town destroyed by the 2010 Chile tsunami

Martı́nez

Rojas²,

Villagra

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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. A large earthquake and tsunami took place in February 2010, affecting a significant part of the Chilean coast (Maule earthquake, M w of 8.8). Dichato (37 • S), a small town located on Coliumo Bay, was one of the most devastated coastal areas and is currently under reconstruction. Therefore, the objective of this research is to analyze the risk factors that explain the disaster in 2010, as well as perceived restoration 6 years after the event. Numerical modeling of the 2010 Chile tsunami with four nested grids was applied to estimate the hazard. Physical, socioeconomic and educational dimensions of vulnerability were analyzed for pre-and post-disaster conditions. A perceived restoration study was performed to assess the effects of reconstruction on the community. It was focused on exploring the capacity of newly reconstructed neighborhoods to provide restorative experiences in case of disaster. The study was undertaken using the perceived restorativeness scale.The vulnerability variables that best explained the extent of the disaster were housing conditions, low household incomes and limited knowledge about tsunami events, which conditioned inadequate reactions to the emergency. These variables still constitute the same risks as a result of the reconstruction process, establishing that the occurrence of a similar event would result in a similar degree of devastation. For post-earthquake conditions, it was determined that all neighborhoods have the potential to be restorative environments soon after a tsunami. However, some neighborhoods are still located in areas devastated by the 2010 tsunami and again present high vulnerability to future tsunamis.

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“…These can be roughly classified into two categories. One is related to evaluation methods of evacuation against various disasters like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and typhoons (for example, Chen, et al, 2012;Wang and Zhao, 2012;Kim, et al, 2011;Jelinek, et al 2012;Wood and Schmidtlein, 2012;Zou, et al, 2006). Another is researches dealing with methodology and its application for evacuation planning or decision support system against various disasters like earthquakes, floods or hurricane (for example, Ye, et al, 2012;Lindell and Prater, 2005;Zhang, et al, 2013;Coutinho-Rodrigues, et al, 2012;Saadatseresht, et al, 2009).…”

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Evaluating Emergency Response Activities during Earthquakes in Local Cities of Japan

Ohgai

Yamamoto

2014

IRSPSD International

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Abstract:This study attempts to develop a method to evaluate the difficulty of emergency response activities in densely built-up areas, focusing on practical usefulness and issues in local cities of Japan. The emergency response activities are classified into evacuation, firefighting, and rescue, based on previous research. The method evaluates the difficulty of the activities by calculating the non-arrival probability and arrival distance for each building, using physical condition data. The developed method is applied to case study districts in Japanese local cities that have disaster mitigation issues. From spatial and quantitative analysis using evaluation results of the emergency response activities, we found that the difficulty of the activities in local cities is relatively low compared with results obtained in previous research dealing with densely built-up areas in big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. Finally, we discuss the possibility of the proposed method as a support tool for community-based planning for disaster mitigation that can plainly offer residents useful information about the difficulty of the response activities.

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Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cádiz, Spain

Cited by 39 publications

References 17 publications

Capturing the multifaceted phenomena of socioeconomic vulnerability

Capturing the multifaceted phenomena of socioeconomic vulnerability

Risk factors and perceived restoration in a town destroyed by the 2010 Chile tsunami

Evaluating Emergency Response Activities during Earthquakes in Local Cities of Japan

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