Efficiently reducing natural hazard risks requires a thorough understanding of the costs of
natural hazards. Current methods to assess these costs employ a variety of terminologies …

The paper presents a nation-wide spatially explicit object-based assessment of buildings
and citizens exposed to natural hazards in Austria, including river flooding, torrential …

The concept of vulnerability is pillared by multiple disciplinary theories underpinning either a
technical or a social origin of the concept and resulting in a range of paradigms for either a …

Planning frequently fails to include the valuation of public goods and services. This can have
long-term negative economic consequences for a region. This is especially the case in …

Alpine hazards such as debris flow, floods, snow avalanches, rock falls, and landslides pose
a significant threat to local communities. The assessment of the vulnerability of the built …

Standard engineering procedures, such as adopting high return periods as reference
events, are a simplified means of handling the complex and multivariate nature of snow …

The evolution of the landscape and the behavior of the groundwater system are key
concerns for the long-term management of radioactive waste in deep geological …

In quantitative risk assessment, risk is expressed as a function of hazard, elements at risk
exposed, and vulnerability. Vulnerability is defined as the expected degree of loss for an …

Avalanche disasters are associated with significant monetary losses. It is thus crucial that
avalanche risk assessments are based on a consistent and proper assessment of the …

Global environmental change includes changes in a wide range of global scale
phenomena, which are expected to affect a number of physical processes, as well as the …