A Digital Template for the Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) Framework: A Virtual Natural Environment

Mignan, Arnaud1,2

2022-12-01

10.3390/ijerph192316097

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   Impact Factor & Quartile

1660-4601

Extreme disasters, defined as low-probability-high-consequences events, are often due to cascading effects combined to amplifying environmental factors. While such a risk complexity is commonly addressed by the modeling of site-specific multi-risk scenarios, there exists no harmonized approach that considers the full space of possibilities, based on the general relationships between the environment and the perils that populate it. In this article, I define the concept of a digital template for multi-risk R&D and prototyping in the Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) framework. This digital template consists of a virtual natural environment where different perils may occur. They are geological (earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions), hydrological (river floods, storm surges), meteorological (windstorms, heavy rains), and extraterrestrial (asteroid impacts). Both geological and hydrological perils depend on the characteristics of the natural environment, here defined by two environmental layers: topography and soil. Environmental objects, which alter the layers, are also defined. They are here geomorphic structures linked to some peril source characteristics. Hazard intensity footprints are then generated for primary, secondary, and tertiary perils. The role of the natural environment on intensity footprints and event cascading is emphasized, one example being the generation of a "quake lake". Future developments, a la SimCity, are finally discussed.

multi-hazard accumulation risk geometric modeling morphometry cellular automaton virtual reality digital twin world simulation complex earth system

SCI ; SSCI

English

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Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

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1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol SUSTech, Inst Risk Anal Predict & Management Risks X, Acad Adv Interdisciplinary Studies, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China
2.Southern Univ Sci & Technol SUSTech, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China

Mignan, Arnaud. A Digital Template for the Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) Framework: A Virtual Natural Environment[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2022,19(23).

Mignan, Arnaud.(2022).A Digital Template for the Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) Framework: A Virtual Natural Environment.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,19(23).

Mignan, Arnaud."A Digital Template for the Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) Framework: A Virtual Natural Environment".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 19.23(2022).