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A quality assessment framework for natural hazard event documentation: application to trans-basin flood reports in Germany |
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S. Uhlemann, A. H. Thieken, B. Merz |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences ; 14, no. 2 ; Nr. 14, no. 2 (2014-02-04), S.189-208 |
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250118269
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-14-189-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Written sources that aim at documenting and analysing a particular natural
hazard event in the recent past are published at vast majority as grey
literature (e.g. as technical reports) and therefore outside of the scholarly
publication routes. In consequence, the application of event-specific
documentation in natural
hazard research has been constrained by barriers in accessibility, concerns
of credibility towards these sources and by limited awareness of their
content and its usefulness for research questions. In this study we address
the concerns of credibility for the first time and present a quality
assessment framework for written sources from a user's perspective, i.e. we
assess the documents' fitness for use to enhance the understanding of
trans-basin floods in Germany in the period 1952–2002. The framework is
designed to be generally applicable for any natural hazard event
documentation and assesses the quality of a document, addressing
accessibility as well as representational, contextual, and intrinsic
dimensions of quality. We introduce an ordinal scaling scheme to grade the
quality in the individual quality dimensions and the Pedigree score which serves
as a measure for the overall document quality. We present results of an
application of the framework to a set of 133 cases of event-specific
documentation relevant for understanding trans-basin floods in Germany. Our
results show that the majority of flood event-specific reports are of good
quality, i.e. they are well enough drafted, largely accurate and objective,
and contain a substantial amount of information on the sources, pathways and
receptors/consequences of the floods. The validation of our results against
assessments of two independent peers confirms the objectivity and
transparency of the quality assessment framework. Using an example flood
event that occurred in October/November 1998 we demonstrate how the
information from multiple reports can be synthesised. |
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