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Author
Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman
;
Tarek Rashed
Title
Towards a geospatial approach to post-disaster environmental impact assessment
Type
Conference Article
Year
2007
Publication
Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers
Abbreviated Journal
ISCRAM 2007
Volume
Issue
Pages
219-226
Keywords
Damage detection
;
Disasters
;
Environmental impact assessments
;
Geographic information systems
;
Remote sensing
;
Analytical approach
;
Built-in components
;
Conceptual frameworks
;
Disaster mitigation
;
Impact assessments
;
Rapid environmental impact assessment (REA)
;
Severity index
;
Statistical decomposition
;
Environmental impact
Abstract
Natural disasters often leave profound impacts on the environment. Existing disaster impact assessment methods fall short in facilitating the relief work and in conducting cross-sectional comparison of various facets of such impacts. The development of a standardized index for measuring/monitoring the environmental impacts of disasters is necessary to address this gap. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to study the environmental impacts via remote sensing/GIS based geospatial analytical approach by developing a post-disaster environmental severity index. It considers physical, social and built-in components of the environment and identifies several key indicators of disaster impacts. Through statistical decomposition of a large number of environmental impact indicators, the study proposes a composite post-disaster environmental severity index (PDESI). Mapping of the proposed index would help identification of areas and component of the environment that are severely affected by a disaster, and formulation of disaster mitigation and damage recovery plans accordingly.
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University of Oklahoma, United States
Corporate Author
Thesis
Publisher
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Place of Publication
Delft
Editor
B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt, K. Nieuwenhuis
Language
English
Summary Language
English
Original Title
Series Editor
Series Title
Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume
Series Issue
Edition
ISSN
2411-3387
ISBN
9789054874171; 9789090218717
Medium
Track
REAS
Expedition
Conference
4th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Notes
Approved
no
Call Number
Serial
865
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