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Towards a geospatial approach to post-disaster environmental impact assessment
Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman
Tarek Rashed
B. Van de Walle, P.B., K. Nieuwenhuis
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.
urn:ISBN:9789054874171; 9789090218717
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=865
citekey:MuhammadTauhidurRahman+TarekRashed2007
citation:Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, & Tarek Rashed. (2007). Towards a geospatial approach to post-disaster environmental impact assessment. In K. Nieuwenhuis P. B. B. Van de Walle (Ed.), Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers (pp. 219-226). Delft: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM.
2007
ConferencePaper
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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
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/rahman/2007/865_Rahman+Rashed2007.pdf
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
English
2411-3387
Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers
2007
219
226
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