NHESS Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences NHESS Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 1684-9981 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/nhess-12-143-2012 GIS-based coastal area suitability assessment of geo-environmental factors in Laoshan district, Qingdao Ju C. Y. 1 Jia Y. G. 1 2 Shan H. X. 1 2 Tang C. W. 3 Ma W. J. 1 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China Key Lab. of Marine Environment & Ecology, Ministry of Education (Ocean University of China), Qingdao 266100, China Qingdao Geotechnical Investigation and Surveying Research Institute, Qingdao 266100, China 17 01 2012 12 1 143 150 Copyright: © 2012 C. Y. Ju et al. 2012 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/12/143/2012/nhess-12-143-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/12/143/2012/nhess-12-143-2012.pdf

With increasing urbanization, particularly in the coastal regions of developing countries, the development of disaster management schemes is needed as the losses from a single event can destroy decades of development and threaten local populations, buildings and infrastructure. Geo-environmental suitability is often evaluated systematically in order to assess the nature of hazards and their potential damage to human life, land, buildings and other property. A suitability assessment will indicate the priorities for geological and environmental hazard management. This paper presents a geological environment suitability assessment that aims to identify grading in a current seaside urban development and develop practices to aid in the identification of hidden geological and environmental hazards. The Laoshan area in the city of Qingdao was used as a case study because it constitutes a good example of a developing city with geological and environmental threats. Also, urban plans have been drawn up here with insufficient or absent information on losses from potential natural hazards.

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