Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

1. Front Matter

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2. Sea Level Rise and Flood Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Introduction

      • Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu

      Pages 1-7

   3. Modeling Sea-Level Rise and Surge in Low-Lying Urban Areas Using Spatial Data, Geographic Information Systems, and Animation Methods

      • E. Lynn Usery, Jinmu Choi, Michael P. Finn

      Pages 11-30

   4. Urban Expansion and Sea-Level Rise Related Flood Vulnerability for Mumbai (Bombay), India Using Remotely Sensed Data

      • Firooza Pavri

      Pages 31-49

   5. A GIS for Flood Risk Management in Flanders

      • Pieter Deckers, Wim Kellens, Johan Reyns, Wouter Vanneuville, Philippe De Maeyer

      Pages 51-69

   6. Using Geographic Information Science to Estimate Vulnerable Urban Populations for Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment in New York City

      • Juliana Maantay, Andrew Maroko, Gretchen Culp

      Pages 71-97

   7. Geo-Information Technology for Infrastructural Flood Risk Analysis in Unplanned Settlements: A Case Study of Informal Settlement Flood Risk in the Nyabugogo Flood Plain, Kigali City, Rwanda

      • Jean Pierre Bizimana, Michele Schilling

      Pages 99-124

3. Metropolitan Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. A Respiratory Riskscape for Texas Cities: A Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution, Demographic Attributes and Deaths from 2000 Through 2004

      • Susan M. Macey

      Pages 127-155

   3. Spatial Distribution of Toxic Release Inventory Sites in Chicago Area: Is There Environmental Inequity?

      • Fahui Wang, Yvette C. Feliberty

      Pages 157-177

   4. Risk and Exposure to Extreme Heat in Microclimates of Phoenix, AZ

      • Darren M. Ruddell, Sharon L. Harlan, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Alexander Buyantuyev

      Pages 179-202

   5. Wildfire Risk Analysis at the Wildland Urban Interface in Travis County, Texas

      • Yongmei Lu, Lori Carter, Pamela S. Showalter

      Pages 203-227

   6. Early Warning of Food Security Crises in Urban Areas: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe, 2007

      • Molly E. Brown, Christopher C. Funk

      Pages 229-241

4. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and International Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Spatial Information Technologies for Disaster Management in China

      • Jing Li, Yunhao Chen, A-du Gong, Weiguo Jiang

      Pages 245-254

   3. A Cybercartographic Tool for Supporting Disaster Prevention Planning Processes and Emergency Management in Mexico City

      • Elvia Martínez­ Viveros, Fernando López­ Caloca

      Pages 255-271

   4. Integration of Tsunami Analysis Tools into a GIS Workspace – Research, Modeling, and Hazard Mitigation efforts Within NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research

      • Nazila Merati, Christopher Chamberlin, Christopher Moore, Vasily Titov, Tiffany C. Vance

      Pages 273-294

   5. Utilizing New Technologies in Managing Hazards and Disasters

      • Ronald T. Eguchi, Charles K. Huyck, Shubharoop Ghosh, Beverley J. Adams, Anneley McMillan

      Pages 295-323

5. Hurricane Response/Recovery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325

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This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and global po- tioning systems. Our focus is on urban areas, broadly de ned in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas that may not be considered “urban” in the conventional sense. The material presented here is also unabashedly applied – our goal is to provide GIT tools to those seeking more ef cient ways to respond to, recover from, mitigate, prevent, and/or model hazard and disaster events in urban settings. Therefore, this book was created not only with our colleagues in the academic world in mind, but also for hazards professionals and practitioners. We also believe graduate students will nd the material presented here of interest, as may upper division undergraduate students.

• Earthquake
• Emergency management
• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Tsunami
• geographic data
• geospatial
• integration
• modeling
• remote sensing
• urban geography and urbanism
• remote sensing/photogrammetry
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

“The primary focus of this volume is on the use of spatial technologies in urban hazard and disaster issues, concentrating on their use in four stages in the disaster management process: response, recovery, preparation, and mitigation. … the editors of this volume have provided an extremely useful addition to the literature in this area and one which deserves to be read by researchers with wider research interests in all aspects of disaster analysis.” (Gary Higgs, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol. 38, 2011)

• Dept. Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, U.S.A.

  Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu

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