Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards

The World Bank s disaster risk management (DRM) activities utilize a range of open access and open source computational modelling tools to quantify the risk posed by natural hazards. An important goal of these activities is to build capacity among...

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Main Authors:	World Bank, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION AFTERSHOCKS ALGORITHMS API APPLICATION PROGRAMMING AVAILABILITY OF DATA BACKUP BACKUP SYSTEMS BASIC BEST PRACTICE CAD CALCULATORS CAPABILITIES CAPABILITY CASUALTIES CASUALTY CITIES CODES CODING COLLABORATION COLLABORATION TOOLS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE COMPONENTS COMPUTING CONNECTIVITY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMIZATION DATA ACCESS DATES DIGITAL DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DOMAINS DRINKING WATER DRM E-MAIL EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SERVICE ENGINEERING ENGINEERS EVACUATION EXPERT JUDGMENT FATALITIES FATALITY FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FORTRAN FREEWARE FUNCTIONALITY GA GAUGE GENERATOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES GRAPHICS GUI GUIS HARD DRIVE HARDWARE HURRICANE HURRICANES INFORMATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION INTERFACES INTEROPERABILITY INVENTORY JAVA LANDSLIDE LANDSLIDES LEARNING LICENSE LICENSES LINUX MAC OS MARKUP MARKUP LANGUAGE MATERIAL MIDDLEWARE NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS NETWORKS NEXT GENERATION NUMBER OF USERS OATS OPEN ACCESS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OPERATING SYSTEM OPERATING SYSTEMS PC PDF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROGRAMS QUERIES RAM REAL-TIME DATA RESULTS RICE RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION ROM SCREENS SENSITIVITY ANALYSES SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SERIAL NUMBERS SERVER SIMULATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SOFTWARE LICENSES SOFTWARE LICENSING SOFTWARE MODULES SOFTWARE PACKAGE SOFTWARE PACKAGES SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SOURCE CODE SPREADSHEET STANDARD FORMATS STORM SUPERCOMPUTERS TAXONOMY TECHNICAL DOCUMENT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY HOUSING TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORMS TSUNAMI TSUNAMIS USABILITY USER USER COMMUNITIES USER COMMUNITY USERS USES VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WEB WEB PORTAL WEBSITE WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS WIND STORM XML
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spelling	okr-10986-206772021-04-23T14:03:57Z Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery ACCESS TO INFORMATION AFTERSHOCKS ALGORITHMS API APPLICATION PROGRAMMING AVAILABILITY OF DATA BACKUP BACKUP SYSTEMS BASIC BEST PRACTICE CAD CALCULATORS CAPABILITIES CAPABILITY CASUALTIES CASUALTY CITIES CODES CODING COLLABORATION COLLABORATION TOOLS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE COMPONENTS COMPUTING CONNECTIVITY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMIZATION DATA ACCESS DATES DIGITAL DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DOMAINS DRINKING WATER DRM E-MAIL EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SERVICE ENGINEERING ENGINEERS EVACUATION EXPERT JUDGMENT FATALITIES FATALITY FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FORTRAN FREEWARE FUNCTIONALITY GA GAUGE GENERATOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES GRAPHICS GUI GUIS HARD DRIVE HARDWARE HURRICANE HURRICANES INFORMATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION INTERFACES INTEROPERABILITY INVENTORY JAVA LANDSLIDE LANDSLIDES LEARNING LICENSE LICENSES LINUX MAC OS MARKUP MARKUP LANGUAGE MATERIAL MIDDLEWARE NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS NETWORKS NEXT GENERATION NUMBER OF USERS OATS OPEN ACCESS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OPERATING SYSTEM OPERATING SYSTEMS PC PDF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROGRAMS QUERIES RAM REAL-TIME DATA RESULTS RICE RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION ROM SCREENS SENSITIVITY ANALYSES SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SERIAL NUMBERS SERVER SIMULATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SOFTWARE LICENSES SOFTWARE LICENSING SOFTWARE MODULES SOFTWARE PACKAGE SOFTWARE PACKAGES SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SOURCE CODE SPREADSHEET STANDARD FORMATS STORM SUPERCOMPUTERS TAXONOMY TECHNICAL DOCUMENT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY HOUSING TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORMS TSUNAMI TSUNAMIS USABILITY USER USER COMMUNITIES USER COMMUNITY USERS USES VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WEB WEB PORTAL WEBSITE WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS WIND STORM XML The World Bank s disaster risk management (DRM) activities utilize a range of open access and open source computational modelling tools to quantify the risk posed by natural hazards. An important goal of these activities is to build capacity among national and local governments and international development professionals working in disaster risk management. A key decision in these activities is the choice of modelling tool that will be used to address the hazard, exposure, and/or risk question under consideration. This document presents an objective analysis of freely available hazard and risk modelling software in order to facilitate selection of appropriate tools for various DRM activities. There have been previous evaluations of freely available modelling tools across various natural hazards, but this is the first multi-hazard systematic review using a set of consistent criteria. The analysis covers hazard risk models for cyclone (wind), storm surge and tsunami, earthquake, and flood. 2014-12-08T19:15:41Z 2014-12-08T19:15:41Z 2014-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20345968/understanding-risk-review-open-source-open-access-software-packages-available-quanify-risk-natural-hazards http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20677 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ACCESS TO INFORMATION AFTERSHOCKS ALGORITHMS API APPLICATION PROGRAMMING AVAILABILITY OF DATA BACKUP BACKUP SYSTEMS BASIC BEST PRACTICE CAD CALCULATORS CAPABILITIES CAPABILITY CASUALTIES CASUALTY CITIES CODES CODING COLLABORATION COLLABORATION TOOLS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE COMPONENTS COMPUTING CONNECTIVITY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMIZATION DATA ACCESS DATES DIGITAL DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DOMAINS DRINKING WATER DRM E-MAIL EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SERVICE ENGINEERING ENGINEERS EVACUATION EXPERT JUDGMENT FATALITIES FATALITY FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FORTRAN FREEWARE FUNCTIONALITY GA GAUGE GENERATOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES GRAPHICS GUI GUIS HARD DRIVE HARDWARE HURRICANE HURRICANES INFORMATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION INTERFACES INTEROPERABILITY INVENTORY JAVA LANDSLIDE LANDSLIDES LEARNING LICENSE LICENSES LINUX MAC OS MARKUP MARKUP LANGUAGE MATERIAL MIDDLEWARE NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS NETWORKS NEXT GENERATION NUMBER OF USERS OATS OPEN ACCESS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OPERATING SYSTEM OPERATING SYSTEMS PC PDF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROGRAMS QUERIES RAM REAL-TIME DATA RESULTS RICE RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION ROM SCREENS SENSITIVITY ANALYSES SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SERIAL NUMBERS SERVER SIMULATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SOFTWARE LICENSES SOFTWARE LICENSING SOFTWARE MODULES SOFTWARE PACKAGE SOFTWARE PACKAGES SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SOURCE CODE SPREADSHEET STANDARD FORMATS STORM SUPERCOMPUTERS TAXONOMY TECHNICAL DOCUMENT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY HOUSING TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORMS TSUNAMI TSUNAMIS USABILITY USER USER COMMUNITIES USER COMMUNITY USERS USES VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WEB WEB PORTAL WEBSITE WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS WIND STORM XML
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO INFORMATION AFTERSHOCKS ALGORITHMS API APPLICATION PROGRAMMING AVAILABILITY OF DATA BACKUP BACKUP SYSTEMS BASIC BEST PRACTICE CAD CALCULATORS CAPABILITIES CAPABILITY CASUALTIES CASUALTY CITIES CODES CODING COLLABORATION COLLABORATION TOOLS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE COMPONENTS COMPUTING CONNECTIVITY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMIZATION DATA ACCESS DATES DIGITAL DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DOMAINS DRINKING WATER DRM E-MAIL EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SERVICE ENGINEERING ENGINEERS EVACUATION EXPERT JUDGMENT FATALITIES FATALITY FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOODED FLOODING FLOODS FORTRAN FREEWARE FUNCTIONALITY GA GAUGE GENERATOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES GRAPHICS GUI GUIS HARD DRIVE HARDWARE HURRICANE HURRICANES INFORMATION SYSTEM INSTALLATION INTERFACES INTEROPERABILITY INVENTORY JAVA LANDSLIDE LANDSLIDES LEARNING LICENSE LICENSES LINUX MAC OS MARKUP MARKUP LANGUAGE MATERIAL MIDDLEWARE NATURAL HAZARD NATURAL HAZARDS NETWORKS NEXT GENERATION NUMBER OF USERS OATS OPEN ACCESS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OPERATING SYSTEM OPERATING SYSTEMS PC PDF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROGRAMS QUERIES RAM REAL-TIME DATA RESULTS RICE RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION ROM SCREENS SENSITIVITY ANALYSES SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SERIAL NUMBERS SERVER SIMULATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS SOFTWARE LICENSES SOFTWARE LICENSING SOFTWARE MODULES SOFTWARE PACKAGE SOFTWARE PACKAGES SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SOURCE CODE SPREADSHEET STANDARD FORMATS STORM SUPERCOMPUTERS TAXONOMY TECHNICAL DOCUMENT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE TECHNICAL SKILLS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY HOUSING TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL STORMS TSUNAMI TSUNAMIS USABILITY USER USER COMMUNITIES USER COMMUNITY USERS USES VIRTUAL COMMUNITY WEB WEB PORTAL WEBSITE WIND SPEED WIND SPEEDS WIND STORM XML World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
description	The World Bank s disaster risk management (DRM) activities utilize a range of open access and open source computational modelling tools to quantify the risk posed by natural hazards. An important goal of these activities is to build capacity among national and local governments and international development professionals working in disaster risk management. A key decision in these activities is the choice of modelling tool that will be used to address the hazard, exposure, and/or risk question under consideration. This document presents an objective analysis of freely available hazard and risk modelling software in order to facilitate selection of appropriate tools for various DRM activities. There have been previous evaluations of freely available modelling tools across various natural hazards, but this is the first multi-hazard systematic review using a set of consistent criteria. The analysis covers hazard risk models for cyclone (wind), storm surge and tsunami, earthquake, and flood.
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author	World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
author_facet	World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
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title	Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
title_short	Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
title_full	Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
title_fullStr	Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
title_full_unstemmed	Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards
title_sort	understanding risk : review of open source and open access software packages available to quanify risk from natural hazards
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20345968/understanding-risk-review-open-source-open-access-software-packages-available-quanify-risk-natural-hazards http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20677
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Understanding Risk : Review of Open Source and Open Access Software Packages Available to Quanify Risk from Natural Hazards

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