[PDF] Top 20 Vulnerability assessment and landslide risk analysis : application to the Loures Municipality, Portugal

... all the minorities coming from Portuguese-speaking African countries, from India and from Europe on a graph composed by the two following axes: social contrast (defined by, inter alia, residential ... See full document

... semi-quantitative assessment of the physical vulnerability of buildings to landslides in a Portuguese municipality (Loures), as well as the quantita- tive landslide ... See full document

... mechanisms and for evaluating potential destructive scenarios are of great importance in risk assessment analysis dedicated to the establishment of appropriate prevention ... See full document

... Physical vulnerability assessment was based on a very detailed field inventory of the buildings characteristics, in contrast to the more usual situation, where information about ... See full document

... potential risk assessment, adverse biological effects were detected, however they were not related with the contaminants ana- ...chemical analysis should be conducted to measure other ... See full document

... is to present and discuss the strategy and results obtained from the application of a seismic vulnerability method to the masonry buildings of the old ... See full document

... on the specification of the impact ...of the available models are specificically designed for an explicit combination of hazard and target object or derived exclu- sively from empirical or ... See full document

... of the relationships between damage and seismic inten- sity, supported by statistical studies of post-earthquake damage ...in the analysis of vulnerability on a wide scale. Of ... See full document

... of the importance in understanding the vulnerability of the exposed elements led to a rapid rise in demand for accurate and flexible methodologies for its evaluation (Calvi et ... See full document

... 1.2 Assessment of population exposure – state of the art The vulnerability of potentially affected people is usually as- sessed based on inhomogeneous spatial units, such as the ... See full document

... of the 1755 Lisbon tsunami and territorial characteristics (Figure ...earthquake, the methodological approach only explores the tsunami parameters and their relation with coastal ... See full document

... by the probability of occurrence within a specified period of time and within a given area of a potentially damaging phenomenon [16] having a given magnitude [41], which is typically measured with ... See full document

... In Portugal, social impacts caused by landslides occurred in the period 1865 –2015 are gathered in the DISASTER ...people and homeless people) caused by landslides documented in newspapers. ... See full document

... sure the number of critical infrastructures and buildings that would be affected by municipality and the subsequent impli- cations for the population, the term critical ... See full document

... DEMs and orthoimages. Velocity maps, direc- tion maps and differential maps which are generated by this processing allow to monitor landslide activity by measuring surface displacements ... See full document

... In Portugal, there is an association called Núcleo de Estudos de Geriatria da Sociedade Portuguesa da Medicina Interna (GERMI) that is dedicated to the study of Geriatric Medicine and ... See full document

... Lista de Verificação Técnica para Estabelecimentos de Comércio a Retalho de Carnes e de Produtos à Base de Carne DGV Lista de Verificação Técnica para Estabelecimentos de Comércio a Reta[r] ... See full document

... scales. Vulnerability assessment is one tool to evaluate the likely impacts that these stressors pose to species so that high-vulnerability cases can be identi- fied and ... See full document

... on the present (2015) orthophoto, where the differ- ent degrees of risk of coastal flooding in the coastal strip can be observed ...14) and the most densely populated areas are ... See full document

... In the catalogue, information on the location and damage caused by recent landslide and flood events is generally accu- ...in the past. Historical documents and chronicles ... See full document