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- Title
Review article: Physical Vulnerability Database for Critical Infrastructure Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments - A systematic review and data collection.
- Authors
Nirandjan, Sadhana; Koks, Elco E.; Mengqi Ye; Pant, Raghav; Van Ginkel, Kees C. H.; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.; Ward, Philip J.
- Abstract
Critical infrastructure (CI) is exposed to natural hazards that may lead to the devastation of these infrastructures and burden society with the indirect consequences that stem from this. The vulnerability is a key determinant for understanding, assessing and reducing natural hazard-induced risks to these infrastructures. To date, however, essential vulnerability information for CI is distributed across literature instead of being accessible through a centralized dataset. This study, through a systematic literature review, synthesises the state-of-the-art of fragility and vulnerability curves for CI assets of energy, transport, water, waste, telecoms, health and education in context of natural hazards and offers a unique physical vulnerability database. The publicly available centralized database that contains over 1,250 curves can directly be used as input for risk assessment studies that evaluate the expected or potential damages to assets due to flooding, earthquakes, windstorms and landslides. The literature review highlights that vulnerability development has mainly focused on earthquake curves for a wide range of infrastructure types. Windstorms have the second largest share in the database, but are especially limited to energy curves. While all CI systems require more vulnerability research, additional efforts are needed for telecommunication which is largely underrepresented in our database.
- Subjects
LANDSLIDES; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); FLOOD risk; WIND power plants; DATABASES; SCHOOL buildings; EARTH system science; EARTHQUAKE resistant design; CHI-chi Earthquake, Taiwan, 1999
- Publication
Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2024, p1
- ISSN
2195-9269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/nhess-2023-208