TY - JOUR

T1 - "Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster - Interdisciplinary approach towards tsunami early warning and an evacuation information system for the coastal city of Padang, Indonesia

AU - Taubenböck, H.

AU - Goseberg, N.

AU - Setiadi, N.

AU - Lämmel, G.

AU - Moder, F.

AU - Oczipka, M.

AU - Klüpfel, H.

AU - Wahl, R.

AU - Schlurmann, T.

AU - Strunz, G.

AU - Birkmann, J.

AU - Nagel, K.

AU - Siegert, F.

AU - Lehmann, F.

AU - Dech, S.

AU - Gress, A.

AU - Klein, R.

N1 - Cited By :92 Export Date: 1 February 2021

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity and loss of billions of dollars worth of property and thus revealed considerable deficits hindering their effective management: Needs for stakeholders, decision-makers as well as for persons concerned include systematic risk identification and evaluation, a way to assess countermeasures, awareness raising and decision support systems to be employed before, during and after crisis situations. The overall goal of this study focuses on interdisciplinary integration of various scientific disciplines to contribute to a tsunami early warning information system. In comparison to most studies our focus is on high-end geometric and thematic analysis to meet the requirements of smallscale, heterogeneous and complex coastal urban systems. Data, methods and results from engineering, remote sensing and social sciences are interlinked and provide comprehensive information for disaster risk assessment, management and reduction. In detail, we combine inundation modeling, urban morphology analysis, population assessment, socioeconomic analysis of the population and evacuation modeling. The interdisciplinary results eventually lead to recommendations for mitigation strategies in the fields of spatial planning or coping capacity. © Author(s) 2009.

AB - Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity and loss of billions of dollars worth of property and thus revealed considerable deficits hindering their effective management: Needs for stakeholders, decision-makers as well as for persons concerned include systematic risk identification and evaluation, a way to assess countermeasures, awareness raising and decision support systems to be employed before, during and after crisis situations. The overall goal of this study focuses on interdisciplinary integration of various scientific disciplines to contribute to a tsunami early warning information system. In comparison to most studies our focus is on high-end geometric and thematic analysis to meet the requirements of smallscale, heterogeneous and complex coastal urban systems. Data, methods and results from engineering, remote sensing and social sciences are interlinked and provide comprehensive information for disaster risk assessment, management and reduction. In detail, we combine inundation modeling, urban morphology analysis, population assessment, socioeconomic analysis of the population and evacuation modeling. The interdisciplinary results eventually lead to recommendations for mitigation strategies in the fields of spatial planning or coping capacity. © Author(s) 2009.

KW - coastal zone

KW - coping strategy

KW - decision support system

KW - disaster management

KW - early warning system

KW - natural hazard

KW - risk assessment

KW - stakeholder

KW - strategic approach

KW - tsunami

KW - Indonesia

U2 - 10.5194/nhess-9-1509-2009

DO - 10.5194/nhess-9-1509-2009

M3 - Artikel

VL - 9

SP - 1509

EP - 1528

JO - Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

JF - Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

SN - 1684-9981

IS - 4

ER -