Modeling the residential building stock in the Middle East for multi-hazard risk assessment

Jamal Dabbeek () and Vitor Silva ()
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Jamal Dabbeek: University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS)
Vitor Silva: Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2020, vol. 100, issue 2, No 15, 810 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study presents an exposure model for the residential building stock in the Middle East, developed for the purpose of multi-hazard risk assessment. The exposure model provides the number of buildings, number of dwellings and population in 12 countries with their corresponding physical characteristics, geographical location and economic value. The main sources of data used to develop this model were housing and population census surveys, existing literature and the judgment of local experts. The study also includes an overview of the most common building types in different parts of the region. A simplified multi-hazard exposure taxonomy is introduced to identify relevant building features according to the type of natural hazard. The exposure model was disaggregated at a fine spatial resolution, using a combination of various remote-sensing datasets, and overlapped with hazard maps to identify population and buildings exposed to floods and earthquakes. The results from this study represent a significant step toward a better understanding of risk due to natural hazards in Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Iraq.

Keywords: Exposure; Residential buildings; Middle East; Multi-hazard; Flood; Earthquake (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-019-03842-7

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