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Volcanic Risk Assessment and Mapping in the Vesuvian Area Using GIS

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  • Lucio Lirer
  • Livia Vitelli

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This paper assesses the risk to people and property from lava flow hazard in the Vesuvian area of Italy using a Geographical Information System (GIS). The intense urbanisation and dense population near Mt. Vesuvius make the area very hazardous. Due to the large amount of available data, GIS is an essential tool to facilitate risk evaluation and constant monitoring of the zone. This analysis is based mainly on a lava flow hazard map of Mt. Vesuvius, determined from volcanic activity between 1631 and 1944. A land-use zonation map of the area was created in order to show areal distribution of the resources, built-up centres and population. For each of the 17 municipalities in the area, demographic and urban data were entered into the GIS database and linked to each appropriate geographic unit in order to create a set of reference maps at the 1:50 000 scale. The lava flow hazard map was overlain on the land use map, and spatial and numerical information of risk were extracted from the resulting maps. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

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  • Lucio Lirer & Livia Vitelli, 1998. "Volcanic Risk Assessment and Mapping in the Vesuvian Area Using GIS," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 17(1), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:17:y:1998:i:1:p:1-15
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1007977110144
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    3. Michaël Goujon & Hajare El Hadri & Raphael Paris, 2021. "A database of the economic impacts of historical volcanic eruptions," CERDI Working papers hal-03186803, HAL.
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    6. Marina Bisson & Boris Behncke & Alessandro Fornaciai & Marco Neri, 2009. "LiDAR-based digital terrain analysis of an area exposed to the risk of lava flow invasion: the Zafferana Etnea territory, Mt. Etna (Italy)," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 50(2), pages 321-334, August.

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