Owing to increased vulnerability and climatic extremes, we face the rapidly growing impact of disasters worldwide. There is an urgent need to incorporate the concepts of disaster risk management into planning, sustainable development and environmental impact assessment. Disaster risk management requires the assessment of risk, which is a multidisciplinary endeavour.
The course explains how to conduct a risk assessment using spatial information on hazards, elements at risk and vulnerability with the aid of GIS and remote sensing, and how this information can be used in risk management, focusing on urban areas.
he course will guide participants through the entire process of risk assessment on the basis of a case study of a city exposed to multiple hazards. At the end of this course, you will be able to:
understand the concepts of hazard assessment, elements-at-risk mapping, vulnerability assessment and risk assessment
formulate the spatial data requirements for hazard- and risk assessment & practice with various exercises in remote sensing and GIS
use GIS to generate an elements-at-risk database
apply various methods for vulnerability assessment
generate risk maps using qualitative and quantitative methods
understand how risk assessment is used in risk reduction and disaster preparedness.
