RT Journal Article
T1 Integrated tsunami vulnerability and risk assessment: Application to the coastal area of El Salvador
A1 González-Riancho, Pino
A1 Aguirre Ayerbe, I.
A1 García Aguilar, O.
A1 Medina, R.
A1 González, M.
A1 Aniel Quiroga, Íñigo
A1 Gutiérrez, O. Q.
A1 Álvarez Gómez, José Antonio
A1 Larreynaga, J.
A1 Gavidia, F.
AB Advances in the understanding and prediction of tsunami impacts allow for the development of risk reduc-tion strategies for tsunami-prone areas. This paper presents a tsunami vulnerability and risk assessment for the case study of El Salvador, the applied methodology dealing with the complexity and variability of coastal zones by means of (i) an integral approach to cover the entire risk-related process from the hazard, vulnerability and risk assessments to the fi-nal risk management; (ii) an integrated approach to combine and aggregate the information stemming from the different dimensions of coupled human and natural systems; and (iii) a dynamic and scale-dependent approach to integrate the spa-tiotemporal variability considerations. This work also aims at establishing a clear connection to translate the vulnerability and risk assessment results into adequate target-oriented risk reduction measures, trying to bridge the gap between science and management for the tsunami hazard. The approach is ap-plicable to other types of hazards, having been successfully applied to climate-change-related flooding hazard
PB Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
SN 16849981
YR 2014
FD 2014-05-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34280
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34280
LA eng
NO Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025