Rapid assessment of potential impacts of a tsunami: Lessons from the Port of Galle in Sri Lanka
Source
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectors which are present in every city such as health, education, housing, life-lines, transportation, telecommunications, industry, government, etc.
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Hazards
Tsunami
Themes
Education and school safety
Health and health facilities
Information management
Risk identification and assessment
Urban risk and planning
Governance
Economics of DRR
Structural safety
Critical infrastructure
Country and region
Sri Lanka
ISBN/ISSN/DOI
9783939923114
Number of pages
96 p.
Publication Year
2008