A new flood risk assessment framework for evaluating the effectiveness of policies to improve urban flood resilience
Hammond, MJ; Chen, AS; Batica, J; et al.Butler, D; Djordjevic, S; Gourbesville, , P; Manojlović, N; Mark, O; Veerbeek, W
Date: 30 August 2018
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Urban Water Journal
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Taylor & Francis
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Abstract
To better understand the impacts of flooding such that authorities can plan for adapting measures to
cope with future scenarios, we have developed a modified Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response
(DPSIR) framework to allow policy makers to evaluate strategies for improving flood resilience in cities.
We showed that this framework ...
To better understand the impacts of flooding such that authorities can plan for adapting measures to
cope with future scenarios, we have developed a modified Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response
(DPSIR) framework to allow policy makers to evaluate strategies for improving flood resilience in cities.
We showed that this framework proved an effective approach to assessing and improving urban flood
resilience, albeit with some limitations. This framework has difficulties in capturing all the important
relationships in cities, especially with regards to feedbacks. There is therefore a need to develop
improved techniques for understanding components and their relationships. While this research
showed that risk assessment is possible even at the mega-city scale, new techniques will support
advances in this field. Finally, a chain of models engenders uncertainties. However, the resilience
approach promoted in this research, is an effective manner to work with uncertainty by providing the
capacity to cope and respond to multiple scenarios
Engineering
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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