Towards an integrated disaster risk management due to coastal flooding
ABSTRACT: This thesis deals with the vulnerability and risk assessment of coastal complex systems in order to move towards an integrated and holistic disaster risk management approach. The research carried out covers the entire process from risk assessment to risk management and has resulted in 4 sc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Cantabria (UC) |
| Repositorio: | UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/10996 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10902/10996 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Vulnerabilidad Riesgo Gestión de desastres Resiliencia Inundación costera Tsunami Evacuación Indicadores Vulnerability Risk Disaster risk management Resilience Coastal flooding Storm surge Evacuation Indicators |
| Sumario: | ABSTRACT: This thesis deals with the vulnerability and risk assessment of coastal complex systems in order to move towards an integrated and holistic disaster risk management approach. The research carried out covers the entire process from risk assessment to risk management and has resulted in 4 scientific papers published, each one focusing on different risk components on which gaps in literature were identified. • An integrated vulnerability and risk assessment framework has been proposed (article 1), together with a clear connection to translate the vulnerability and risk assessment results into adequate target-oriented risk reduction measures. • A framework for the formulation of tsunami evacuation plans has been proposed based on tsunami hazard & vulnerability assessment and evacuation modelling (article 2). • The indicators currently proposed by the scientific community to measure human vulnerability have been validated in light of past tsunami events, to improve their definition and selection as well as to analyse their validity for different country development profiles (article 3). • A conceptual framework has been proposed to assess the resilience of a community by understanding and integrating the institutional, legal and social capacities to cope and recover from a natural hazardous event in order to minimize the impacts in the short-term and to adapt to the risk in the long-term (article 4). |
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