by cooperating in this way at the regional level and local level they can share the risk information and allow for timely evacuation such transboundary information management also needs to be more comprehensive integrating riverbasin hydrology with climate risk scenarios seasonal weather forecasts monsoon variability analysis terrain characteristics and information on land use and cover in this way it can address information gaps and promote southsouth and regional cooperation they should be able to employ the data in their risk models and vulnerability analyses and use these as a basis for decisionmaking one study that assessed ten major geospatial information products found that for humanitarian purposes the most valued products were those related to earthquakes and floods for economic purposes however those of greatest use were for urban land use classification along with flood and landslide risk assessments figure iv