Hazard mapping is a key step in understanding the risks and resilience of our environment. With the use of GIS and other emerging geospatial tools, hazards can be mapped, analyzed and modelled to create new layers, generating new ideas and awareness of the hazards we face. Geospatial tools enable various formats, scale, sources to be integrated in a common platform however, vital parameters are
... [Show full abstract] needed for the hazards maps to be effective while adding value to existing expertise and knowledge. Emerging spatial technologies also play an important role in once used to be an expensive exercise to access and capture information but can now be available using online, mobile and other hand-held devices. By using geospatial tools, scientists, engineers, policy makers and communities can visualize, incorporate other knowledge making it easier to collaborate and work together to create resilient communities.