Integrating public risk perception into formal natural hazard risk assessment

Integrating population modeling into ecological risk assessment.

Physical vulnerability modelling in natural hazard risk assessment

An evaluation of the risk to an exposed element from a hazardous event requires a consideration of the element’s vulnerability, which expresses its propensity to suffer damage. This concept allows the assessed level of hazard to be translated to an estimated level of risk and is often used to evaluate the risk from earthquakes and cyclones. However, for other natural perils, such as mass moveme...

Digital Elevation Modelling for natural hazard risk assessment

Introduction The application of geographic information systems (GISs) to natural hazard risk management is a relatively new and emerging science. Coppock (1995) notes that GIS has made a contribution to various facets of natural hazard risk management since risk is a multi-dimensional and multidisciplinary phenomenon, which have a spatial component, whatever their initial focus. Hence, the succ...

Assessment of desertification hazard, risk and development of management plans

About 80 percent of Iran is arid and semi-arid and about 35 percent of this area is susceptible to desertification hazard. Therefore desertification assessment and identification of the most important criteria for the assessment of risk and a basis for development of management plans is essential. This research was conducted in the semi-arid region of Agh-Band in the Golestan province, Iran wit...

Risk communication, risk perception, and public health.

Risk communication is about building trust while deploying an interactive and ongoing communication process in which audience members are active participants. This interactive participation may not solve a public health crisis, but it will help reduce unwarranted fear, anxiety and distrust. Consequently, if a government agency fails to understand how to effectively communicate about health risk...