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Information - NH9.06 Natural Hazards Impact on Urban Areas and Infrastructure
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Most strategies for both preparedness and emergency management in case of disaster mitigation are related to urban planning. While natural, engineering and social sciences contribute to the evaluation of the impact of earthquakes and their secondary events (including tsunamis, earthquake triggered landslides, or fire), floods, landslides, high winds, and volcanic eruptions on urban areas, there are the instruments of urban planning which are to be employed for both visualisation as well as development and implementation of strategy concepts for pre- and postdisaster intervention. The evolution of natural systems towards extreme conditions is taken into consideration so far at it concerns the damaging impact on urban areas and infrastructure and the impact on the natural environment of interventions to reduce such damaging impact.
Contributions addressing both the development of conceptual models or of case studies regarding following aspects are especially welcome:
- assessment and mapping techniques of the impact of natural hazards on urban areas (both foreseen risk assessment and post-event damage assessment);
- visualisation and communication techniques of the assessed impact of natural hazards on urban areas, especially case studies of 'impact assessment', including GIS and internet;
- strategies for reduction of natural hazards' impact on urban areas;
- suitable instruments of urban planning for the development of disaster mitigation strategies in case of occurence of various natural hazards;
- partnerships models between the actors involved in the decision making process for disaster mitigation;
- case studies of master plans including protection from natural hazards impact;.
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