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| Titel |
Integrated tsunami vulnerability and risk assessment: application to the coastal area of El Salvador |
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P. González-Riancho, I. Aguirre-Ayerbe, O. García-Aguilar, R. Medina, M. González, I. Aniel-Quiroga, O. Q. Gutiérrez, J. A. Álvarez-Gómez, J. Larreynaga, F. Gavidia |
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| ISSN |
1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences ; 14, no. 5 ; Nr. 14, no. 5 (2014-05-22), S.1223-1244 |
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250118444
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-14-1223-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Advances in the understanding and prediction of tsunami impacts allow for the
development of risk reduction strategies for tsunami-prone areas. This paper
presents a tsunami vulnerability and risk assessment for the case study of El
Salvador, the applied methodology dealing with the complexity and variability
of coastal zones by means of (i) an integral approach to cover the entire
risk-related process from the hazard, vulnerability and risk assessments to
the final risk management; (ii) an integrated approach to combine and
aggregate the information stemming from the different dimensions of coupled
human and natural systems; and (iii) a dynamic and scale-dependent approach
to integrate the spatiotemporal variability considerations. This work also
aims at establishing a clear connection to translate the vulnerability and
risk assessment results into adequate target-oriented risk reduction
measures, trying to bridge the gap between science and management for the
tsunami hazard. The approach is applicable to other types of hazards, having
been successfully applied to climate-change-related flooding hazard. |
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