Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation and Resilience in Urban Areas

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas

Analysing the Effects of Flood-Resilience Technologies in Urban Areas Using a Synthetic Model Approach

Flood protection systems with their spatial effects play an important role in managing and reducing flood risks. The planning and decision process as well as the technical implementation are well organized and often exercised. However, building-related flood-resilience technologies (FReT) are often neglected due to the absence of suitable approaches to analyse and to integrate such measures in ...

A Framework for Flood Risk Analysis and Benefit Assessment of Flood Control Measures in Urban Areas

Flood risk analysis is more complex in urban areas than that in rural areas because of their closely packed buildings, different kinds of land uses, and large number of flood control works and drainage systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical framework for flood risk analysis and benefit assessment of flood control measures in urban areas. Based on the concept of disaster ri...

The growth and nature of urban areas in developing countries.

I 57 during the week, in Booth’s words: ‘a good deal of bread is eaten and tea drunk especially by the women and children’. Without detailed knowledge of distribution of food within the family or of workloads in industry, the adequacy of the diet is difficult to assess. However, the concern exhibited in the late nineteenth century for social problems involving the standard of living requires so...

Flood Characteristics and Mitigation Issues

Among various natural disasters floods make the largest impact in terms of number of casualties, people affected and property lost. Flood data during the past 30 years show that flood events that cause significant impacts have increased at a steady rate. Available data suggest that this increase could be attributed to increasing population and exposure, increasing property values located in vul...