Spatial assessment and analysis of vulnerability - GIScience applied in the interdisciplinary domain of hazard and climate change research

This theme is expected to highlight different developed and currently investigated methodologies to spatially assess vulnerability. It will specifically address the issue of vulnerability assessment, independent from conceptual discussions. The focus will be on the review and discussion of different methods of GIScience employed to assess, quantify and represent vulnerability as integrated spatial phenomena. Within a workshop session, current achievements and future research challenges will be identified and formulated.

Topics:
- Assessments in the domains of disaster risk reduction, climate change, natural hazards and human security;
- Methods for indicator selection and index construction;
- Scale issues in vulnerability assessments;
- Validation and accuracy of vulnerability assessments;
- Spatio-temporal visualisation of complex indicators.

The workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, July 6 and Wednesday, July 7, 2010 and will be followed by the annual GI_Forum. In addition to presentations ranging from different scholarly schools of vulnerability the workshop will focus on output oriented discussion sessions.

The papers will be peer-reviewed and published in a book.