Geographic Information and Geo-visualisation in support of Disaster Resilience

Kurwakumire, Edward; Muchechetere, Paul; Kuzhazha, Shelter; Ikokou, Guy Blachard

doi:10.5194/ica-proc-2-68-2019

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“…Natural disasters such as floods have been increasing in intensity and frequency (Salami et al, 2017a;Rajabifard et al, 2018;Kurwakumire et al, 2019). Flood disasters thus claim the lives of millions worldwide.…”

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“…Typical examples include flooding in Cape Town (Somdyala, 2019) and Durban (Singh, 2019); and fire outbreaks in Alexandra (Ngqakamba, 2019) that has resulted in loss of lives and property. Present day, natural disasters such as floods are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity (Bello and Aina, 2014;Kurwakumire et al, 2019) and result in loss of life and devastated livelihoods (Sawada and Takasaki, 2017) with poverty eventually the resulting by-product. Disasters impact negatively on vulnerable communities in informal settlements (Tas et al, 2013) where less formal and often weak land tenure arrangements exist (McCallin et al, 2015).…”

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Informal cadastres as enabling tools for disaster risk management

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Kuzhazha²,

Muchechetere³

2021

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Disaster Risk Management requires up-to-date land information availed through the cadastre. Informal settlements are often located in disaster prone areas. Having up-to-date land information about these informal settlements is one step towards disaster preparedness and building community resilience in the highway towards sustainable development. This study designs conceptual models using unified modelling language (UML) for an informal cadastre for recording land information pertinent to disaster risk management based on a South African case study. The results demonstrate that land tenure relationships in informal settlements can be mapped using the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM). The importance of disaster information is that it provides communities with information to tackle disasters and improve in their capabilities to handle them. With such information, the disaster risk can be minimised. This study is aligned to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 3. The linkage between spatial data, disaster resilience and the SDGs is explored.

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Informal cadastres as enabling tools for disaster risk management

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Kuzhazha²,

Muchechetere³

2021

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“…Geo-visualisation includes modern digital ways of representing geospatial data and plays an important role in disaster modelling, scenario development, post-disaster analysis, and during the execution of search and rescue operations [11]. Geo-visualisation is often driven through Geographical Information Systems (GIS).…”

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“…Although technologies cannot stop disasters from taking place, they can be very useful for disaster preparedness, especially including prediction, early warning, and rescue operations post-disaster [10], which eventually rewards the city to operationalise its resilience mechanism. For instance, having well-defined early warning and post-disaster management systems in a city as part of its disaster risk management strategy/mechanism enables these cities to return to their state of equilibrium faster following an extreme event [11]. Hence, utilising the potential benefits of technology and innovations is of the utmost importance in creating resilience in Smart Cities.…”

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Technological Innovations for Enhancing Disaster Resilience in Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Urban Scholar’s Analysis

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Despite advancements, Smart Cities encounter hazards. Smart Cities’ higher reliance on interconnected systems and networks makes them susceptible to risks beyond conventional ones, leading to cascading effects. Hence, the effective use of technological innovations is vital. This effective use involves understanding the existing use of technology innovations for resilience making in Smart Cities and the wise utilisation of them as suitable for different contexts. However, there is a research gap for a fundamental study that synthesises the emerging and disruptive technologies that are being used to improve the disaster resilience in Smart Cities and how they can be classified. Therefore, this research aimed to address that need, so that a Smart City evaluating the technologies/tools for disaster resilience could wisely utilise the available resources and prioritise the most suitable for their context-specific needs. Following a comprehensive literature review, the study identified 24 technologies and/or tools for creating, sustaining, and enhancing the resilience within Smart Cities. In doing so, they should collect and manage citywide geodata and foster public participation. While the wise utilisation of the most suitable and feasible tools and technologies is a measure of smartness in a Smart City, the findings suggested four key factors with which these technologies could be assessed. These four factors included impact on society, the adoption speed by Smart Cities, the maturity of the technology, and the capabilities offered to the community.

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“…If data have a combination of spatial, semantic and temporal dimensions, they are referred to as geographic data/information and geo-spatial data (Marzouki et al, 2017). The visualization of these data then becomes specific, and goes beyond simple scientific and information visualization (Kurwakumire et al, 2019). The integration of visualization in the analysis of geo-spatial data has led to a transformation of traditional mapping through the digital era (Çöltekin et al, 2017) .…”

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Resilience issues and challenges into built environments: a review

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Abstract. This paper proposes a review of existing strategies and tools aiming at facilitating the operationalization of the concept of resilience into built environments. In a context of climate change, increased risks in urban areas and growing uncertainties, urban managers are forced to innovate in order to design appropriate risk management strategies. Among these strategies, making cities resilient has become an imperative. This injunction to innovation fits perfectly with the urban, economic, political, social and ecological complexity of the contemporary world. As a result, the concept of resilience is integrated into the issues of urban sprawl and the associated risks. However, despite this theoretical and conceptual adequacy, resilience remains complex to integrate into the practices of urban planners and territorial actors. Its multitude of definitions and approaches has contributed to its abstraction and lack of operationalization. This review highlights the multitude of approaches and methodologies to address the bias of the lack of integration of the concept of resilience in risk management. The limit is the multiplication of these strategies which lead to conceptual vagueness and a lack of tangible application at the level of local actors. The challenge would then be to design a toolbox to concentrate the various existing tools, conceptual models and decision support systems in order to facilitate the autonomy and responsibility of local stakeholders in integrating the concept of resilience into risk management strategies.

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Geographic Information and Geo-visualisation in support of Disaster Resilience

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Informal cadastres as enabling tools for disaster risk management

Informal cadastres as enabling tools for disaster risk management

Technological Innovations for Enhancing Disaster Resilience in Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Urban Scholar’s Analysis

Resilience issues and challenges into built environments: a review

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