Technological hazard and risk assessment
Authors: Debanjan Bandyopadhyay & Cees van Westen
In this exercise we would like to evaluate the risks arising out of an industrial warehouse located in the city using the set of spatial data provided with this exercise and the basic knowledge of technological risk assessment acquired from the presentation.
The city, in addition to being very vulnerable to natural hazards (floods, earthquakes and landslides) may also be affected by technological risks, either triggered by natural hazards or due to a stand alone industrial accident.
On noticing carefully, you will observe that there are a number of sites with hazardous materials storage located within the city boundaries located in the middle of densely populated areas. In the domain of the landuse there is one class called:
Ind_hazardous (code: ind_h) which indicates: Hazardous material storage or manufacture