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The coastal areas are subjected to different types of hazards like flood, tsunami , cyclone, storm surge, sea level rise and erosion due the impacts of global climate change . In most of the events, more than one such hazard happens to occur simultaneously leading to multihazard situations. In order to optimize disaster risk reduction endeavours, it is necessary to develop an integrated framework for analysis of multiple hazards that facilitates comparing distinct administrative units or regions in regard to hazard threat. For Indian coasts, such efforts are still missing. An inclusive hazard analysis should be adopted with identification and prioritization of hazard types followed by assessing probability of the occurrence of a hazard of given intensity (or degree of severity, often associated with the physical level of damage) at a particular location. This chapter demonstrates well-developed scientific methods to analyse hazards through various steps like data collection, data analysis and mapping each of which has been implemented for the case of Sagar island .
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Khan, A., Chatterjee, S. (2018). Hazard Analysis. In: Coastal Risk Assessment. SpringerBriefs in Oceanography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69992-9_2
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