the frequency and impacts of floods have increased in iran in the past few decades. as flood events are in most instances associated with human activities, mitigating their impacts requires non-structural and community-based initiative alongside structural measures. in this connection, the concept of community resilience has been advanced in recent times, which attaches importance to interactio...

Globally, flooding is the most frequent among all natural disasters, commonly resulting in damage to infrastructure, economic catastrophe, and loss of life. Since the flow of water is influenced by the shape and height of topography, an effective mechanism for preventing and directing floods is to use structures that increase height, e.g., levees and sandbags. In this paper, we introduce the Op...

There is an increasing demand for a new paradigm to improve flood mitigation decision processes that calls for risk reduction strategies at several levels. This demand may gain ground only if dialogue is encouraged among different perspectives, disciplines and knowledge types. The aim of this paper is to explore new routes to improve flood mitigation decision processes. A growing body of eviden...

agreed to take an initiative on flood prediction, prevention and mitigation. A core group led by the Netherlands and France has prepared a "best practice document" on flood prevention, protection and mitigation to be presented to the Water Directors meeting in Athens in June 2003. The document at hand concerns the " best practice document " , which is an update of the United Nations and Economi...

A flood warning system is a non-structural measure for flood mitigation. Several parameters are responsible for flood related disasters. This work  illustrates an ordered intuitionistic fuzzy analysis that has the capability to simulate the unknown relations between a set of meteorological and hydrological parameters. In this paper, we first define ordered intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets and est...

Understanding how people view flash flood risks can help improve risk communication, ultimately improving outcomes. This article analyzes data from 26 mental models interviews about flash floods with members of the public in Boulder, Colorado, to understand their perspectives on flash flood risks and mitigation. The analysis includes a comparison between public and professional perspectives by ...

a flood warning system is a non-structural measure for flood mitigation. several parameters are responsible for flood related disasters. this work  illustrates an ordered intuitionistic fuzzy analysis that has the capability to simulate the unknown relations between a set of meteorological and hydrological parameters. in this paper, we first define ordered intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets and est...

Early efforts to mitigate flood hazards emphasized structural solutions such as dams and levees. More recent strategies have stressed regulatory, nonstructural measures. In neither case, however, has homeowner involvement been given a very important role. Frustrated with the limited success of past efforts, floodplain managers recently have become more interested in encouraging homeowners to ta...

In this study, we developed an innovative operational decision-support system (DSS) based on flood data and mitigation or recovery options, that can be used by both naïve and expert users to score portfolios of flood mitigation or recovery measures. The DSS combines exposure (i.e., economic, social, or environmental values at risk) and resilience (i.e., protection of the main equilibrium functi...