Including equity considerations in resilient transport network planning and analysis: A flood impact perspective

Transportation plays a pivotal role in society in the accessibility of socio-economic functions, such as education and health services. At the same time these transport networks are put under pressure due to increasing demands and the often-increasing occurrence of climate-induced events. To increase resilience of the transportation network...

Characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of social vulnerability in Burkina Faso: A comparison of Principal Component Analysis with Equal Weighting

Global climate change has results in a higher frequency of extreme disaster events and is therefore a serious challenge in disaster impact management. Disaster risk is composed of several components, such as vulnerability, susceptibility, exposure and the probability of occurence and intensity of a hazard. Vulnerability has become a topical...