Quantifying Storm Tide Risk in Cairns

Ken Granger ()

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2003, vol. 30, issue 2, 165-185

Abstract: The United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)gave rise to an increasing level of attention to the risks posed by a range of naturalhazards and the development of strategies by which to reduce those risks. It waswidely recognised that in order to evaluate risk treatment strategies it was necessaryto `measure' the level of risk that already existed and the level of risk that would beencountered with the treatment strategy(s) in place. This paper outlines the methodology developed under the AGSO (now GeoscienceAustralia) Cities Project to quantify the risk associated with storm tide inundation. It includes the methodology for `measuring' the level of community exposure to storm tide hazards and the methodology for `measuring' community vulnerability. The Far North Queensland city of Cairns is used as the case study to demonstrate the application of these methods. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

Keywords: tropical cyclones; storm tide; community vulnerability; risk assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1026166300914

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