Metropolisation, urbanisation and flood debacle modeling exposures of Yakutsk (Russia)

• Main Author: Gadal, Sébastien
• Other Authors: Études des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace (ESPACE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Polar Urban Centers PUR, Ambassade de France en Suède - University of Umea
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Metropolisation; Urbanisation; Flooding; Vulnerability Analysis; Arctic Climate; Yakutsk; Spatial Modeling; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; [SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation; Arctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://amu.hal.science/hal-01820157

International audience Some circumpolar regions as Yakutsk in the North Eastern Siberia are characterised by an emerging process of metropolisation. The emergence of large urban areas in Yakutsk increases the level of vulnerability of the population of the Lena’s river debacle flooding. A spatial model based on remote sensing measures the level of urban population exposure of flooding, the vulnerability to the spring breakup flood risk and potential consequences.