The integration of GIS and multicriteria decision analysis has attracted significant interest
over the last 15 years or so. This paper surveys the GIS‐based multicriteria decision …

The world has faced many disasters in recent years, but flood impacts have gained immense
importance and attention due to their adverse effects. More than half of global flood …

Earthquakes are natural phenomena, which induce natural hazard that seriously threatens
urban areas, despite significant advances in retrofitting urban buildings and enhancing the …

Recently, the cities of Yerba Buena and Tucuman in Tucumán Province, Argentina, have
been affected by several storm flood events, causing hundreds of people to be evacuated …

Catastrophic natural hazards, such as earthquake, pose serious threats to properties and
human lives in urban areas. Therefore, earthquake risk assessment (ERA) is indispensable …

This paper reviews the potential applications of satellite remote sensing to regional science
research in urban settings. Regional science is the study of social problems that have a …

Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society and
the environment, and affecting cities' sustainability and resilience in complex ways at …

The objective of this paper is to incorporate the concept of fuzzy (linguistic) quantifiers into
the GIS-based land suitability analysis via ordered weighted averaging (OWA). OWA is a …

Indexes have gained favor over the past decade as a tool to measure social vulnerability to
hazards. Numerous index designs have been put forward, yet we still know very little about …

The Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI), created by Cutter et al.(2003), examined the spatial
patterns of social vulnerability to natural hazards at the county level in the United States in …