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Public Attitudes Toward Policy Instruments for Flood Risk Management
Effective flood risk management (FRM) requires a mix of policy instruments that reduces, shares, and manages flood risk. The social acceptability of...
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Develo** more useful equity measurements for flood-risk management
Decision-makers increasingly invoke equity to motivate, design, implement and evaluate strategies for managing flood risks. Unfortunately, there is...
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Overlooking probabilistic map** renders urban flood risk management inequitable
Characterizing flood-related hazards has mostly relied on deterministic approaches or, occasionally, on particular uncertainty sources, resulting in...
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Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective
A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS for FRM (NbS-FRM)...
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Water under the bridge: how place meanings shape second homeowners’ engagement in flood risk management in southern Denmark
In Europe, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Consequently, low-lying areas in southern Denmark...
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Assessment of vulnerability to flood risk in the Padma River Basin using hydro-morphometric modeling and flood susceptibility map**
An evaluation of flood vulnerability is needed to identify flood risk locations and determine mitigation methods. This research introduces an...
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Flood risk map** under changing climate in Lower Tapi river basin, India
Now a days, assessment of flood risk is a significant concern worldwide, particularly in regions experiencing rapid urbanization and climate change....
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Flood risk assessment in Limbe (Cameroon) using a GIS weighed sum method
Climate change, urbanization, and land subsidence are increasing risks of dangerous and costly flooding in Africa’s coastal regions. As the intensity...
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Urban form and structure explain variability in spatial inequality of property flood risk among US counties
Understanding the relationship between urban form and structure and spatial inequality of property flood risk has been a longstanding challenge in...
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Can sediments play a role in river flood risk map**? Learning from selected European examples
BackgroundClimate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure are two of the major drivers of increasing extreme events like droughts and floods. To...
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Theoretical Boundaries of Annual Flood Risk for Single-Family Homes Within the 100-Year Floodplain
Special flood hazard areas (SFHAs), defined as having an annual probability of occurrence of 1 percent or above, are used by U.S. Federal Emergency...
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A geospatial approach for assessing urban flood risk zones in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India, has experienced several instances of severe flooding over the past two decades, primarily...
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A geospatial analysis of flood risk zones in Cyprus: insights from statistical and multi-criteria decision analysis methods
Over the past few decades, flood disasters have emerged as the predominant natural hazard in Cyprus, primarily driven by the escalating influence of...
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Flood disaster industry-linked economic impact and risk assessment: a case study of Yangtze River Economic Zone
China is an extremely sensitive nation severely impacted by global climate change, with frequent floods in the Yangtze River Economic Zone causing...
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Flood Risk Assessment in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Flood processes are one of the most challenging to risk assessment and management. In many situations, peak flows are generated kilometers away from...
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Urban flood risk assessment characterizing the relationship among hazard, exposure, and vulnerability
Risk assessment is an effective means to alleviate urban flood disasters and has attracted the attention of many studies. However, most previous...
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A resilience-based robustness evaluation framework for sustainable urban flood management under uncertainty
Urban drainage systems (UDSs) may experience failure encountering uncertain future conditions. These uncertainties arise from internal and external...
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Flood risk assessment of Wuhan, China, using a multi-criteria analysis model with the improved AHP-Entropy method
Floods are one of the most frequent global natural hazards resulting in significant human and economic losses. Therefore, assessing and map** flood...
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How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria
Path dependency occurs when a contingent event predetermines what further steps can be taken and self-reinforcing mechanisms lock-in any further...
