Land use change and risk of disaster near Sahara region

Abstract

In the view of landform and land use change, the lower part of the Tone River plain was assesed for risk of natural hazard. In this study, we used meshmaps of landform, land use change, underground water level and bore hole data with field study. The specific landform sucha as former rive cource and the boundory between former river course and sanp spits, reclamed land are vulnerable for hazard in 2011 earthquke.