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Author Medina Pena, Neiler

Title Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment Combining Multi-Hazards with Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Dynamic Exposure
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (329 p.)
Series IHE Delft PhD Thesis Ser
IHE Delft PhD Thesis Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Summary -- Samenvatting -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Disaster Risk Management -- DRM -- 1.2.1 Definitions -- 1.2.2 DRM Approaches -- 1.2.3 DRM Gaps and Requirements -- 1.3 Research Objectives -- 1.4 Research Questions -- 1.5 Research Approach -- 1.5.1 Scope -- 1.5.2 Workflow -- 1.5.3 Case Study -- 1.6 Thesis Outline -- 2. Capturing Elements Of Vulnerability, Exposure And Risk -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Need for post-disaster data
2.1.2 Challenges to data collection after a disaster -- 2.2 Survey Design after Hurricane Irma -- 2.2.1 Conceptual Design -- 2.2.2 Collection Modes -- 2.2.3 Survey preparation -- 2.2.4 Pre-Survey logistics and preparation -- 2.3 Survey -- 2.3.1 Data Collection -- 2.3.2 Response Rate, Confidence Level and Margin of error -- 2.4 Survey -- Results -- 2.4.1 Main findings -- 2.4.2 Discussion and interpretation -- 2.5 Lessons learned during the survey -- 3. Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment in SIDS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Methodology and Data
3.2.1 Data sources used for the vulnerability assessment -- 3.2.2 Vulnerability Index -- 3.2.3 Vulnerability Mapping -- 3.2.4 Principal Components Analysis (PCA) -- 3.3 Results and Discussion -- 3.3.1 Correlation Analysis and Selection of Number of Principal Components -- 3.3.2 Vulnerability Index and components -- 3.3.3 Principal Components Analysis (PCA) -- 3.3.4 Clustering Analysis -- 3.3.5 Recommendations for Vulnerability Reduction in Sint Maarten and policy implementation -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 4. Multi-Hazard Modelling -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Hazard Modelling -- 4.2.1 Wind Assessment
4.2.2 Storm Surge -- 4.2.3 Inland Flooding -- 4.3 Results -Hazard Mapping -- 4.3.1 Wind hazard map -- 4.3.2 Flood and Storm surge hazard map -- 4.3.3 Multi-hazard Index -- 4.4 Conclusions -- 5. Assessing Exposure To Hurricanes using Evacuation Behaviour -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Materials and Methodology -- 5.2.1 Literature Review -- 5.2.2 Disaster Risk Management structure in Sint Maarten -- 5.2.3 Evacuation related Information Collected in the Field Mission -- 5.2.4 Predictors to be analysed -- 5.2.5 Model Analysis -- 5.2.6 Results and Analysis -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Conclusions
6. Agent-Based Models for Water-Related Disaster Risk Management -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical Background -- 6.2.1 Complex Adaptive Systems -- 6.2.2 Agent-Based Models -- 6.3 Materials and Methodology -- 6.3.1 Scope of the Review -- 6.3.2 Search and Evaluation Strategy -- 6.3.3 Selection and Exclusion Criteria -- 6.4 Results -- 6.4.1 Characteristics of the reviewed papers -- 6.4.2 Critical review of Applications of ABM in WR-DRM -- 6.5 Discussion -- 6.5.1 Characteristics of the studies -- 6.5.2 Applications of ABM in Disaster Risk Management -- 6.6 Recommendations and Future Directions
Notes Description based upon print version of record
6.6.1 Theoretical Recommendations
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ISBN 9781000542844
100054284X