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Some methodological aspects of vulnerability and threat evaluation with natural geological processes in Svaneti (Georgia)
Author(s) -
EGIAZAROVA Diana,
ROGAVA David
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ce/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2509-7075
DOI - 10.1002/cepa.673
Subject(s) - mudflow , geologic hazards , vulnerability (computing) , landslide , natural (archaeology) , natural disaster , climate change , population , environmental resource management , geography , glacial period , natural hazard , baseline (sea) , physical geography , environmental planning , ecology , geology , environmental science , archaeology , geomorphology , computer science , meteorology , biology , computer security , sociology , oceanography , demography
For most countries, protecting the population from geological disaster, maintaining ecosystems and safe functioning of engineering‐economic objects became the most important social‐economic, demographic and ecological problem. This problem is present in Georgia, where the mountainous relief is 70 %. Among them the main place takes Zemo Svaneti region, located on the south slope of the Central Caucasus and which 66 % is located above 2000 m asl. This region is particularly vulnerable to natural geological processes, as mudslides, snow‐glacial avalanches and landslides, which have serious effect on the human's life, infrastructure, ecology etc. Large activation of geological disaster is due to climate change, human's high pressure on geological environment and often earthquakes. To identify the hazards and risks of geological disaster, it is necessary to rate the situation, to identify the processes with considering baseline substrates and external promoting factors, also to region processes according to individual hazards with management and engineering events.