Spatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area. This book concentrates on examples of prevention but also gives crisis control advice and practical case studies. Some chapters address urban applications in which vulnerabilities are concentrated in area; others address more rural areas with more scattered phenomena.
Introduction.
Chapter
1. From Prevention to Risk Management: Use of
GIS ( Sophie SAUVAGNARGUES-LESAGE ). 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. GIS and public
security. 1.3. Examples of applications for public security. 1.4. Prospects
for development. 1.5. Conclusion. 1.6. Bibliography.
Chapter
2. Coupled Use
of Spatial Analysis and Fuzzy Arithmetic: Assessing the Vulnerability of a
Watershed to Phytosanitary Products ( Bertrand DE BRUYN, Catherine
FREISSINET and Michel VAUCLIN ). 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Construction of the
index. 2.3. Implementation of fuzzy calculations. 2.4. Application to the
watershed of Vannetin: vulnerability to atrazine. 2.5. Conclusion. 2.6.
Bibliography.
Chapter
3. Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution ( Philippe
BOLO and Christophe BRACHET ). 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Mapping non-point
source pollution phenomenon. 3.3. Territorial database building rules. 3.4.
The data sources used. 3.5. Pollution risk zoning. 3.6. Risk zoning
applications. 3.7. Conclusion. 3.8. Bibliography.
Chapter
4. Cartographic
Index and History of Road Sites that Face Natural Hazards in the Province of
Turin ( Paola ALLEGRA, Laura TURCONI and Domenico TROPEANO ). 4.1.
Introduction. 4.2. Principal risks. 4.3. Research area. 4.4. Working method.
4.5. Computer-based synthetic analysis and transcription of historical data
and information collected on the research area. 4.6. First results. 4.7.
Structure of computer thematic mapping. 4.8. Application and use of the
method. 4.9. Bibliography.
Chapter
5. Forest and Mountain Natural Risks:
From Hazard Representation to Risk Zoning - The Example of Avalanches (
Frederic BERGER and Jerome LIEVOIS ). 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Identification
of protective forest zones. 5.3. Perspectives. 5.4. The creation of green
zones in risk prevention plans. 5.5. Conclusion: general recommendations.
5.6. Bibliography.
Chapter
6. GIS and Modeling in Forest Fire Prevention (
Marielle JAPPIOT, Raphaele BLANCHI and Franck GUARNIERI ). 6.1. Understanding
forest fire risks. 6.2. Forest fire management: risk mapping and the use of
spatial analysis. 6.3. Using GIS to map forest fire risks. 6.4. Conclusion.
6.5. Bibliography.
Chapter
7. Spatial Decision Support and Multi-Agent
Systems: Application to Forest Fire Prevention and Control ( Franck
GUARNIERI, Alain JABER and Jean-Luc WYBO ). 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Natural
risk prevention support and the need for cooperation between the software
programs. 7.3. Towards an intelligent software agent model to satisfy the
cooperation between the decision-support systems dedicated to natural risk
prevention. 7.4. Experiment in the field of forest fire prevention and
control. 7.5. Conclusions and perspectives. 7.6. Bibliography.
Chapter
8.
Flood Monitoring Systems ( Jean-Jacques VIDAL and Noel WATRIN ). 8.1.
Introduction. 8.2. Flood monitoring and warning. 8.3. Situation diversity.
8.4. Technical answers. 8.5. Conclusion. 8.6. Bibliography.
Chapter
9.
Geography Applied to Mapping Flood-Sensitive Areas: A Methodological Approach
( Christophe PRUNET and Jean-Jacques VIDAL ). 9.1. Introduction. 9.2. A
geographic analysis of flooding. 9.3. A concrete example. 9.4. Bibliography.
Chapter
10. Information Systems and Diked Areas: Examples at the National,
Regional and Local Levels ( Pierre MAUREL, Remy TOURMENT and William HALBECQ
). 10.1. Context. 10.2. Analysis of the current situation for the management
of diked areas. 10.3. Spatial dimension and integrated management of diked
areas. 10.4. Examples of information systems dedicated to diked areas. 10.5.
Recent progress and perspectives. 10.6. Bibliography.
Chapter
11. Geomatics
and Urban Risk Management: Expected Advances ( Jean-Pierre ASTE ). 11.1.
Towns, risks and geomatics. 11.2. Prevention stakeholders: their
responsibilities, their current resources and expectations. 11.3. Today's
methods and tools: strengths and weaknesses. 11.4. New potentialities using
geomatic methods and tools. 11.5. Some ongoing initiatives since the
beginning of
2001. 11.6. Assessment and outlook: fundamental elements of
future systems. 11.7. Bibliography. List of Authors. Index.
