ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: In Bucharest (Romania), urban planning and risk management are mostly based on mural maps. A compilation of data bases is integrated to a GIS in order to improve spatial diagnostic and analysis. This allows risk management and urban planning to move focus from hazard to vulnerability. As approaches based on vulnerability raise problems of heterogeneous data, mixed units of measurement and definition of thresholds, we propose a solution through multivariate analysis. The different profiles of vulnerability are then mapped and superimposed on a hazard map, in order to produce a synthetic map of urban risk. These new approaches and a spectroscopy of vulnerability are developed in the case of Bucharest, as a support for planning and decision making activities.
