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Hazard mapping is a process of preparing information for display using graphical representation of the distribution of attributes of features or conditions that have the potential to cause injury to people or animals or damage to property or the environment. Hazard features may be indications of past occurrences of a hazardous process, or future occurrences of a hazard may be interpreted from landscape features or subsurface data that indicate susceptibility to the process. Hazard maps can be made for land-use planning and development zoning or for actuarial or engineering purposes. Hazard maps for planners depict areas where studies must be performed by qualified professionals to support land development permit applications that may depend on mitigation of the hazard, including land use or design details. Hazard maps for actuaries and engineers depict hazardous-process intensity values that are...
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Munro, R. (2018). Hazard Mapping. In: Bobrowsky, P., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12127-7_302-1
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