Hy Dao
Biography:
Hy Dao is currently senior lecturer in geographic information at the University of Geneva. He studied human geography at the University of Geneva and later got a post-graduate diploma from the International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands). He holds a PhD in human geography from the University of Geneva (subject : « GIS, remote sensing and knowledge of the environment. The case of deforestation in Ivory Coast. »). Hy Dao is also heading the Metadata and Socio-Economics unit at UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe. His fields of activities include vulnerability assessment, population mapping, sustainable development indicators, graphic semiology, and e-learning.
Bibliography:
- Peduzzi P., Dao H., Herold C., Mouton F. (2009), Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.,vol. 9/4, pp. 1149-1159 - Peduzzi P., Dao H. (2005), Mapping Disastrous Natural Hazards using Global Datasets, Natural Hazards, vol. 35, pp. 265-289. - Salari Sharif S., Dao H. (2005), Etude de l'expansion urbaine à Téhéran : l'utilité de la télédétection, Urbia, no 1 «Les métamorphoses de la ville. Régimes d'urbanisation, étalement et projet urbain», pp. 75-90. -Dao H. (2005). Le rôle des SIG dans la connaissance et la gestion du territoire. In: Da Cunha A., Knoepfel P., Leresche J.-P., Narath S. (dir.), Enjeux du développement urbain durable, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, pp. 123-156, - Chatelain C., Dao H., Gautier L., Spichiger R. (2003), Forest cover changes in Côte d’Ivoire and Upper Guinea. In Bongers F., Loorens P., Kouamé F. N., Hawthorne W. D. (eds.), Biodiversity of West African Forests. An Ecological Atlas of Woody Plant Species, CABI Publishing, Wallingford (UK).
