Natural Hazards and Earth System Science www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net 1561-8633 1684-9981 10 8 2010 10.5194/nhess-10-1739-2010 http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/10/1739/2010/ http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/10/1739/2010/nhess-10-1739-2010.html http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/10/1739/2010/nhess-10-1739-2010.pdf 1739 1750 2010-08-25 Public assessment of the usefulness of "draft" tsunami evacuation maps from Sydney, Australia – implications for the establishment of formal evacuation plans F. Dall'Osso filippodallosso@gmail.com D. Dominey-Howes CIRSA, Interdepartemental Centre for Environmental Science, University of Bologna, via S. Alberto 163, 48100 Ravenna, Italy Australian Tsunami Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Med Ingegneria S.r.l., via P. Zangheri 16, 48100 Ravenna, Italy Australia is at risk from tsunamis and recent work has identified the need for models to assess the vulnerability of exposed coastal areas – a fundamental element of the risk management process. Outputs of vulnerability assessment can be used as a baseline for the generation of tsunami prevention and mitigation measures, including evacuation maps. Having noted that no evacuation maps exist for Manly, Sydney (an area recently subjected to high resolution building vulnerability assessment by Dall'Osso et al., 2009b), we use the results of the analysis by Dall'Osso et al. (2009b) to "draft" tsunami evacuation maps that could be used by the local emergency service organisations. We then interviewed 500 permanent residents of Manly in order to gain a rapid assessment on their views about the potential usefulness of the draft evacuation maps we generated. 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