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Combining social vulnerability and physical vulnerability to analyse landslide ...
Guillard, Clemence; Zêzere, JoséIn this work residents’ social vulnerability and buildings’ physical vulnerability of the Loures municipality (Portugal) were combined to locate the areas where the vulnerability is the highest, and to analyse the landslide risk. The social vulnerability of Loures was assessed using the Geographic Basis for Information Reference (BGRI) terrain units by combining sensitivity and lack of resilience based on the p...
Integration of landslide susceptibility maps for land use planning and civil pr...
Oliveira, Sérgio; Zêzere, José; Guillard, Clemence; Garcia, Ricardo A C; Pereira, SusanaLandslides are one of the most relevant geomorphological hazards in Portugal, by the high levels of people affected, destruction of assets and disruption of economic and social activities. Regarding the Portuguese territorial land use planning and emergency management, regulation, practice, prevention and risk management have been promoted in different ways. In Portugal, the areas susceptible to landslides are ...
Vulnerability assessment and landslide risk analysis : application to the Loure...
Guillard, ClemenceThe present study aims to develop a method for assessing the landslide vulnerability at the municipal scale which supports the landslide risk analysis. Three susceptibility assessments to deep-seated rotational and translational slides and to shallow slides in the Loures municipality are presented in the first chapter. A bivariate statistical method called Information Value Method was used to cross the 686 inve...