Natural Disasters, Urban Vulnerability, and Risk Management: A Theoretical Overview

2013 ◽  
pp. 7-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebru A. Gencer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Urban Vulnerability ◽  
Theoretical Overview

scholarly journals Risk Management in Seaports: A Community Analysis at the Port of Hamburg

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8035
Author(s):  
Ayman Nagi ◽  
Meike Schroeder ◽  
Wolfgang Kersten
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Community Analysis ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Plausibility Check ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm

The aim of this work is to detect communities of stakeholders at the port of Hamburg regarding their communication intensity in activities related to risk management. An exploratory mixed-method design is chosen as a methodology based on a compact survey and semi-structured interviews, as well as secondary data. A compact survey at the port of Hamburg is utilized to address the communication intensity values among stakeholders. Based on 28 full responses, the data is extracted, cleansed, and prepared for the network analysis using the software “Gephi”. Thereafter, the Louvain community detection algorithm is used to extract the communities from the network. A plausibility check is carried out using 15 semi-structured interviews and secondary data to verify and refine the results of the community analysis. The results have revealed different communities for the following risk categories: (a) natural disasters and (b) operational and safety risks. The focus of cooperation is on the reactive process and emergency plans. For instance, emergency plans play an important role in the handling of natural disasters such as floods or extreme winds.

scholarly journals The Point Bonitation Method and Its Adaptation in Risk Studies: A Case Study in Sri Lanka’s Cities in the Coastal Zone

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2060
Author(s):  
Dorota Rucińska ◽  
Martyna Zagrzejewska
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Specific Result ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Tsunami Risk

Article proposes using weighting method named the Point Bonitation Method, a popular interdisciplinary method, especially in the tourism and socio-economic geography, for giving optional direction to further researching tsunami risk. This method qualifies and quantifies those factors that lead to natural disasters so that it is possible to make comparisons with their roles in disaster areas. This case study in Sri Lanka shows a specific result that is quantification of vulnerability by regions and can be used and developed locally for disaster risk management and reduction. This paper presents discussion about other possible reasons of high risk in regions.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage and natural disasters: the insurance choice of the Italian Cathedrals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco De Masi ◽  
Donatella Porrini
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Risk Management Strategy ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
System A ◽  
Insurance Choice ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract Given the threat of natural disasters to Cultural Heritage, this paper aims to investigate how the use of the insurance instrument contributes to the definition of an adequate risk management strategy. The analysis focuses on the role that insurance can play both by supplying policies covering damage and proactively stimulating prevention behaviors, taking into consideration information imperfections (i.e., adverse selection, moral hazard and charity hazard). Through a survey among Italian Dioceses, data about the diffusion of insurance contracts were collected together with other qualitative and quantitative elements linked to the decisional process of insuring Italian Cathedrals. The empirical analysis shows that the administrators of the Dioceses are aware of the economic value of the cultural assets and in safeguarding the Cathedrals they identify in the insurance system a useful and efficient risk management instrument.

scholarly journals Risk Management as Part of Crisis Management Tasks

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Witold Skomra
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe increasing number of natural disasters requires the use of preventive measures. One of the elements is the inclusion of risk management in crisis management. On the basis of this observation, the research problem was formulated: “In the light of new challenges, should the crisis management system continue to be built on the theory of crisis within the security sciences, or should it be based on risk management developed in the area of management sciences?” In summary, the answer to the question was provided, and a new definition of the concept of “crisis management” was proposed.

Limits to natural disasters management: the influence of human behavior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Aerts
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Behavioral Adaptation ◽  
Risk Models ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
The Impact

<p>Despite billions of dollars of investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR), data over the period 1994- 2013 show natural disasters caused 1.35 million lives. Science respond with more timely and accurate information on the dynamics of risk and vulnerability of natural hazards, such as floods. This information is essential for designing and implementing effective climate change adaptation and DRR policies. However, how much do we really know about how the main agents in DRR (individuals, businesses, government, NGO) use this data? How do agents behave before, during, and after a disaster, since this can dramatically affect the impact and recovery time. Since existing risk assessment methods rarely include this critical ‘behavioral adaptation’ factor, significant progress has been made in the scientific community to address human adaptation activities (development of flood protection, reservoir operations, land management practices) in physically based risk models.</p><p>This presentation gives an historic overview of the most important developments in DRR science for flood risk. Traditional risk methods integrate vulnerability and adaptation using a ‘top- down’ scenario approach, where climate change, socio economic trends and adaptation are treated as external forcing to a physically based risk model (e.g. hydrological or storm surge model). Vulnerability research has made significant steps in identifying the relevant vulnerability indicators, but has not yet provided the necessary tools to dynamically integrate vulnerability in flood risk models.</p><p>However, recent research show novel methods to integrate human adaptive behavior with flood risk models. By integrating behavioral adaptation dynamics in Agent Based Risk Models, may lead to a more realistic characterization of the risks and improved assessment of the effectiveness of risk management strategies and investments. With these improved methods, it is also shown that in the coming decades, human behavior is an important driver to flood risk projections as compared to other drivers, such as climate change. This presentation shows how these recent innovations for flood risk assessment provides novel insight for flood risk management policies.</p>

scholarly journals RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF MULTI-RISK ASSESSMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Marijola Božović ◽  
Emina Mihajlović ◽  
Snežana Živković
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Emergency Event ◽  
Integrated Risk ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Hazard Risk Assessment ◽  
Integrated Risk Management ◽  
Multidisciplinary Sciences

The late 20th and early 21st centuries were marked by sudden and rapid changes, including the free flow and interconnectedness of people, information, and trade, but the most prominent changes pertain to scientific and technological advancements. New connections were also found between different scientific disciplines, which had previously been considered unrelated, thus causing the breakthrough of multidisciplinary sciences. Unfortunately, the 21st century has so far been ridden with natural disasters worldwide. According to EM-DAT (Emergency Event Database 2015), the consequences and losses caused by natural disasters have been increasing. Thus, risk assessment became a priority for reducing the risk from natural disasters. Risk assessment is the essence of risk management. Just as there are connections between various scientific disciplines, so are there connections between various disastrous events, which resulted in the increased importance of the concept of multi-risk. Multi-hazard risk assessment is a key step in integrated risk management. Over the last decade, the interest in multi-risk assessment has grown in Europe but also globally.

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