Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment: Combining Multi-Hazards with Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Dynamic Exposure

ISBN-13: 9781032116174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Neiler Medina Pena

Opis

This dissertation developed an Adaptive Disaster Risk Assessment (ADRA) framework for weather-related disasters in the context of SIDS. The adaptivity of the framework comes from the explicit assessment of the exposure component and from the modular and flexibility of an index-based approach used to assess the socioeconomic vulnerability.

O autorze

Neiler Medina is a PhD researcher in Urban Water Systems at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands. Neiler obtained his BSc, in Sanitary Engineering, a post-graduate certificate as a specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and his MSc in Water Science and Engineering, specialization Hydroinformatics from UNESCO-IHE. Mr Medina is an experienced water engineer with an extensive background in modelling water systems, focus on urban drainage and sewerage networks. His expertise also includes disaster risk assessment/management for hydro-meteorological hazards such as floods and hurricanes, including hazard modelling, socioeconomic vulnerability and exposure assessment and mapping.