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This chapter discusses geographical information systems (GIS) as a technology that can fundamentally help one gain knowledge of the evolution of geographical phenomena and their cross-relationships. Ultimately, this knowledge may be used to apply this tool for natural hazard and risk assessment studies. Referring to the basic methodology for susceptibility and risk integrate assessment, some specific GIS-related improvements are discussed that are focused on highlighting specific GIS functions related to some specific methodology steps. Starting from a brief recognition of GIS from international sources, the main GIS functions were analysed together with more diffused GIS utilisations in published risk assessment studies up with — at the end — a step-by-step approach leading to a possible general conceptual structure of a GIS application applied to natural hazard assessment. Possibilities and constraints are examined and discussed, and three degrees of complexity are proposed.
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Valpreda, E. (2004). GIS and Natural Hazards. In: Casale, R., Margottini, C. (eds) Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08905-7_22
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