Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables
An urban landslide vulnerability assessment methodology is proposed with major focus on considering urban social and economic aspects. The proposed methodology was developed based on the landslide susceptibility maps that Korean Forest Service utilizes to identify landslide source areas. Frist, debr...
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| description | An urban landslide vulnerability assessment methodology is proposed with major focus on considering urban social and economic aspects. The proposed methodology was developed based on the landslide susceptibility maps that Korean Forest Service utilizes to identify landslide source areas. Frist, debris flows are propagated to urban areas from such source areas by Flow-R (flow path assessment of gravitational hazards at a regional scale), and then urban vulnerability is assessed by two categories: physical and socioeconomic aspect. The physical vulnerability is related to buildings that can be impacted by a landslide event. This study considered two popular building structure types, reinforced-concrete frame and nonreinforced-concrete frame, to assess the physical vulnerability. The socioeconomic vulnerability is considered a function of the resistant levels of the vulnerable people, trigger factor of secondary damage, and preparedness level of the local government. An index-based model is developed to evaluate the life and indirect damage under landslide as well as the resilience ability against disasters. To illustrate the validity of the proposed methodology, physical and socioeconomic vulnerability levels are analyzed for Seoul, Korea, using the suggested approach. The general trend found in this study indicates that the higher population density areas under a weaker fiscal condition that are located at the downstream of mountainous areas are more vulnerable than the areas in opposite conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-14d3d96ae3584011b1bdfe1fbb8614dd2025-02-03T01:11:26ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172016-01-01201610.1155/2016/45724984572498Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic VariablesYoonkyung Park0Ananta Man Singh Pradhan1Ungtae Kim2Yun-Tae Kim3Sangdan Kim4Division of Earth Environmental System Science, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Republic of KoreaCivil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USADepartment of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Republic of KoreaDepartment of Environmental Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 48513, Republic of KoreaAn urban landslide vulnerability assessment methodology is proposed with major focus on considering urban social and economic aspects. The proposed methodology was developed based on the landslide susceptibility maps that Korean Forest Service utilizes to identify landslide source areas. Frist, debris flows are propagated to urban areas from such source areas by Flow-R (flow path assessment of gravitational hazards at a regional scale), and then urban vulnerability is assessed by two categories: physical and socioeconomic aspect. The physical vulnerability is related to buildings that can be impacted by a landslide event. This study considered two popular building structure types, reinforced-concrete frame and nonreinforced-concrete frame, to assess the physical vulnerability. The socioeconomic vulnerability is considered a function of the resistant levels of the vulnerable people, trigger factor of secondary damage, and preparedness level of the local government. An index-based model is developed to evaluate the life and indirect damage under landslide as well as the resilience ability against disasters. To illustrate the validity of the proposed methodology, physical and socioeconomic vulnerability levels are analyzed for Seoul, Korea, using the suggested approach. The general trend found in this study indicates that the higher population density areas under a weaker fiscal condition that are located at the downstream of mountainous areas are more vulnerable than the areas in opposite conditions.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4572498 |
| spellingShingle | Yoonkyung Park Ananta Man Singh Pradhan Ungtae Kim Yun-Tae Kim Sangdan Kim Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables Advances in Meteorology |
| title | Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables |
| title_full | Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables |
| title_fullStr | Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables |
| title_short | Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables |
| title_sort | development and application of urban landslide vulnerability assessment methodology reflecting social and economic variables |
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