Physical vulnerability assessment for alpine hazards: state of the art and future needs

摘要: Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to human lives development can cause considerable damage lifelines, critical infrastructure, agricultural lands, housing, public private infrastructure assets. The assessment of the vulnerability built environment these is topic that growing in importance due climate change impacts. A proper understanding will lead more effective risk assessment, emergency management mitigation preparedness activities all which are designed reduce loss life economic costs. In this study, we reviewing existing methods for related mountain hazards. By analysing approaches, identify difficulties their implementation (data availability, time consumption) differences between them regarding scale, consideration hazardous phenomenon its properties, important indicators use technology GIS remote sensing. Finally, based on observations, future needs field include user-friendliness method, selection relevant indicators, transferability inclusion information concerning hazard itself, (GIS) provision products maps temporal pattern vulnerability.