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Assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunami in Sydney

dc.contributor.author Dall'Osso, Filippo en_US
dc.contributor.author Gonella, Marco en_US
dc.contributor.author Gabbianelli, Giovanni en_US
dc.contributor.author Withycombe, Geoff en_US
dc.contributor.author Dominey-Howes, Dale en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:25:23Z
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dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract Australia is vulnerable to the impacts of tsunamis and exposure along the SE coast of New South Wales is es- pecially high. Significantly, this is the same area reported to have been affected by repeated large magnitude tsunamis during the Holocene. Efforts are under way to complete probabilistic risk assessments for the region but local gov- ernment planners and emergency risk managers need infor- mation now about building vulnerability in order to develop appropriate risk management strategies. We use the newly revised PTVA-3 Model (Dall’Osso et al., 2009) to assess the relative vulnerability of buildings to damage from a “worst case tsunami” defined by our latest understanding of regional risk – something never before undertaken in Australia. We present selected results from an investigation of building vul- nerability within the local government area of Manly – an iconic coastal area of Sydney. We show that a significant proportion of buildings (in particular, residential structures) are classified as having “High” and “Very High” Relative Vulnerability Index scores. Furthermore, other important buildings (e.g., schools, nursing homes and transport struc- tures) are also vulnerable to damage. Our results have seri- ous implications for immediate emergency risk management, longer-term land-use zoning and development, and building design and construction standards. Based on the work un- dertaken here, we recommend further detailed assessment of the vulnerability of coastal buildings in at risk areas, devel- opment of appropriate risk management strategies and a de- tailed program of community engagement to increase overall resilience. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1561-8633 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/51917
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other PTVA-3 Model en_US
dc.subject.other Tsunami en_US
dc.subject.other Building Vulnerability en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.subject.other GIS map en_US
dc.title Assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunami in Sydney en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
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unsw.description.notePublic Link to the journal article: http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/2015/2009/nhess-9-2015-2009.html en_US
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-9-2015-2009 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Science
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 2015-2026 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 9 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Dall'Osso, Filippo, Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Gonella, Marco, Med Ingegneria S.f.l., Hydraulic Engineering, Italy en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Gabbianelli, Giovanni, CIRSA, University of Bologna, Italy en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Withycombe, Geoff, Sydney Coastal Council Group en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Dominey-Howes, Dale, Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences *
unsw.subject.fieldofresearchcode 040604 Natural Hazards en_US
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