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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2013.33.3.1077

Selecting and Assessing Vulnerable Zones of Snow Damage in Urban Areas - the case of City of Busan  

Koo, Yoo Seung (Pusan National University)
Lee, Sung Ho (Pusan National University)
Jung, Juchul (Pusan National University)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.33, no.3, 2013 , pp. 1077-1086 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent huge losses of both life and property have occurred by unexpected natural disasters. We studied snow damages, an important natural disaster issue because it happens more frequently in recent years. This study tries to select vulnerable areas of snowfall in advance and then establish climate change adaptation policy for minimizing unexpected snowfall damage. Busan, where is our study area, has hilly in downtown areas so that topography characteristics of the roads such as slope, elevation and aspect are vulnerable to snowfall. The sudden snowfall in Busan causes traffic jam and causes some schools in hilly to close some schools. At this moment, the adaptation policy has to be established for infrastructure (such as roads) in advance, because prediction of anomaly climate due to global warming is so difficult beside the damage of natural disaster is huge. Therefore, the purpose of this study is contribute to selecting and assessing vulnerable zones of snow damage focusing topography characteristics of the roads and then evaluating the degree of risk of vulnerable zones.
Keywords
Snow Damage; GIS Overlay Analysis; Risk Assessment;
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