Recent Advances in the Assessment of Flood Risk in Urban Areas

• Other Authors: Ferreira, Tiago Miguel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; integrated operation; urban stream; urban drainage facility; revised resilience index; flood; 3Di; loss assessment; analytic hierarchy process (AHP); risk map; climate change; urban flood risk; flood damage; urban disaster; land use; flood risk susceptibility; FRS-GWR modeling; built-up growth prediction; Thailand; Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR); HEC-RAS; 2D modeling; flood hazard; urban and peri-urban area; flood risk assessment; flood evacuation; evacuation modelling; behavioral design; urban built environment at risk; human motion in floodwaters; remote sensing; flood extent mapping; Can Tho City; Google Earth engine; uncertainty; support vector machine regression (SVR); urban flood; risk management; Historic City Centre of Guimarães; pluvial flood; indirect impacts; risk assessment; graph analysis; flood mitigation; Mexico City; n/a
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The adverse effects of flood disasters in urban areas have been increasing in severity and extent over the past years. The amount of loss resulting from these events is also increasing exponentially, particularly in highly urbanised urban areas, where the effects of intensive land use and climate ch...