Unified Natural Hazard Management: Lessons from Flooding

1996 ◽  
pp. 239-244
Author(s):  
Frank H. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Hazard Management

Transformations in European Natural Hazard Management

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Prior ◽  
Florian Roth ◽  
Michel Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Hazard Management

Lessons learned from the Big Floods, 1999–2013: The Bavarian Flood Action Programme 2020plus

Water Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 133-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Grambow ◽  
Erich Eichenseer ◽  
Gregor Overhoff ◽  
Tobias Hafner ◽  
Kerstin Staton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Flood Protection ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Protection Strategy ◽  
Extreme Flood ◽  
Action Programme

Flood protection is an integral part of society's development. Meeting a growing vulnerability in the context of geopolitical and global changes, existing systems of natural hazard management must be reviewed on a regular basis. This is illustrated well by Bavaria's recent history. The lessons from the big floods in the period of 1999–2013 led to a fundamental modification of Bavaria's integral flood protection strategy. The concepts of flood risk management, resilience and dealing with extreme flood events which exceed standard structural design limits came to the fore. Management of flash floods and other floods, handling of potential retention areas, the inclusion of insurance, resettlement, and the burden of maintenance are further challenges which are briefly addressed in this paper.

Rural Intelligent Transportation System Natural-Hazard Management on Low-Volume Roads

2003 ◽  
Vol 1819 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-259
Author(s):  
Rand Decker ◽  
Robert Rice ◽  
Steve Putnam ◽  
Stanford Singer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
Road Closure

The growth of winter travel on alpine roads in the western United States has increased the risk to motorists and highway maintenance personnel owing to a variety of natural hazards. Hazards include snow and ice, avalanching snow, and blowing and drifting snow. The conditions call for attendant need for incident response. A substantial number of affected routes are low-volume rural winter roads. Configurations have been developed for rural intelligent transportation system (ITS) technology that can detect hazards and provide, autonomously and in real time, warnings to and traffic control actions for motorists, highway maintainers, and incident responders for roadway natural hazards. These warnings include on-site traffic control signing and road closure gates, in-vehicle audio alarms for agency maintenance and patrol vehicles, and notification to highway agency maintenance facilities or centralized multiagency dispatchers. These actions and notifications are initiated automatically from the remote rural sites and via manual intervention from off-site personnel, well removed from the rural roadway corridor itself. About 5 years of experience have been accumulated in using these rural ITS natural-hazard reduction systems, including snow avalanche detection and warning systems on Loveland Pass, Colorado; Hoback Canyon, Wyoming; and Banner Summit, Idaho. Automated road closure gates on the Teton Pass in Idaho and Wyoming now allow for remote road closure during heavy snow events. These cost-effective ITS natural-hazard systems are highly exportable for other processes that affect rural low-volume roadways, including landslide, flooding, high surf, high winds, loss of visibility, wildlife, and other natural hazards of this type.

scholarly journals Application of satellite remote sensing in natural hazard management: The Mount Mangart landslide case study

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (20) ◽  
pp. 3983-4002 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Oštir ◽  
T. Veljanovski ◽  
T. Podobnikar ◽  
Z. Stančič
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Hazard Management

scholarly journals Prediction Time Assessment in a DDDAS for Natural Hazard Management: Forest Fire Study CaseI

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1761-1770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andŕes Cencerrado ◽  
Ana Cort́es ◽  
Tom‘as Margalef
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Prediction Time ◽  
Time Assessment
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