Spatial management of risks / edited by Gérard Brugnot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From prevention to risk management: use of GIS / Sophie Sauvagnargues-Lesage -- Coupled use of spatial analysis and fuzzy arithmetic: assessing the vulnerability of a watershed to phytosanitary products / Bertrand De Bruyn, Catherine Freissinet, Michel Vauclin -- Agricultural non-point source pollution / Philippe Bolo, Christophe Brachet -- Cartographic index and history of road sites that face natural hazards in the province of Turin / Paola Allegra, Laura Turconi, Domenico Tropeano -- Forest and mountain natural risks: from hazard representation to risk zoning -- the example of avalanches / Frederic Berger, Jérôme Liévois -- GIS and modeling in forest fire prevention / Marielle Jappiot, Raphaele Blanchi, Franck Guarnieri -- Spatial decision support and multi-agent systems: application to forest fire prevention and control / Franck Guarnieri, Alain Jaber, Jean-Luc Wybo -- Flood monitoring systems / Jean-Jacques Vidal, Noël Watrin -- Geography applied to mapping flood-sensitive areas: a methodological approach / Christophe Prunet, Jean-Jacques Vidal -- Information systems and diked areas: examples at the national, regional and local levels / Pierre Maurel, Rémy Tourment, William Halbecq -- Geomatics and urban risk management: expected advances / Jean-Pierre Asté.

Spatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area. This book concentrates on examples of prevention but also gives crisis control advice and practical case studies. Some chapters address urban applications in which vulnerabilities are concentrated in area; others address more rural areas with more scattered phenomena.

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