The city of Mississauga has recently identified strategic growth areas where investments will be targeted for redevelopment and intensification projects. One of the growth areas has a history of flooding during major storm events. In order to redevelop this area, businesses and land owners need to prepare development proposals ensuring that appropriate flood proofing requirements have been achi...

An important aspect of hydraulic flood modelling deals with representing topography of river and floodplain. Commonly, flood model applications are reported successful in topographically simple areas were topography only changes gradually and where topography is simulated by DEM’s of relatively low resolution. Such DEM’s are particular useful for flood simulation in rural areas, although import...

The long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by the memory of damage and losses associated with flooding of communities remains an under researched impact of flooding. This is particularly important for communities that are likely to be repeatedly flooded where levels of mental health disorder will damage long term resilience to future flooding. There are a variety of fa...

This article investigates the influence of public risk mitigating activities on individuals’ decisions to privately mitigate their disaster risks through changes in perceptions. We exploit heterogeneity measures under U.S. Community Rating System empirically demonstrate that investment flood communication crowds insurance demand, while lower hazard residents face crowd out demand. contribute di...

International cooperation over the major rivers in South Asia became closer with the signing in 1996 and 1997 of five innovative water, power and economic cooperation agreements. The innovations include four elements: (i) the transfer of some previously diplomatic questions into the sphere of the private economy, (ii) bringing third parties, other than governments, into the design and negotiati...

Characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami have been revealed by collaborative tsunami surveys extensively performed under the coordination of the Joint Tsunami Survey Group. The complex behaviors of the mega-tsunami were characterized by the unprecedented scale and the low occurrence frequency. The limitation and the performance of tsunami countermeasures were described on the basis of tsunami...