Areas at Risk – Concept and Methods for Urban Flood Risk Assessment
eBook - PDF

Areas at Risk – Concept and Methods for Urban Flood Risk Assessment

A Case Study of Santiago de Chile

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Areas at Risk – Concept and Methods for Urban Flood Risk Assessment

A Case Study of Santiago de Chile

About this book

Urban expansion and associated land-use changes increase both flood hazards and exposure. This e-book provides a conceptual and methodological framework for the analysis of urban flood risk in dynamic and complex settings, and proposes a comprehensive, system-oriented, integrated approach for its assessment.

The risk assessment is carried out using case-specific indicators on the sub-city scale in two municipalities of Santiago de Chile. Relevant information is derived from various geodata sources, and together with explorative scenarios, is used to estimate future risk development. All data about hazard, elements at risk, and their vulnerability are compiled to a GIS-based risk map to join the risk-relevant components, to show their interrelations, and to provide a tool for monitoring and evaluating their changes over time. Finally, previous deficits in flood risk prevention and mitigation are outlined and recommendations on risk reduction are made.

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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  2. CONTENT
  3. LIST OF FIGURES
  4. LIST OF TABLES
  5. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  6. 1 INTRODUCTION
  7. 2 DISASTER RISK RELATED TERMS AND CONCEPTDEVELOPMENT
  8. 3 EXISTING FLOOD RISK-RELATED RESEARCH
  9. 4 DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA
  10. 5 DEFINITION OF A CASE SPECIFIC INDICATOR SET FOR THERISK ANALYSIS
  11. 6 DATA BASE AND DATA PROCESSING
  12. 7 REMOTE SENSING DATA ANALYSIS
  13. 8 HYDROLOGIC MODELING
  14. 9 FLOOD RISK ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT
  15. 10 PREVENTION AND MITIGATION MEASURES
  16. 11 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
  17. REFERENCES
  18. APPENDIX 1 – ADDITIONAL TABLES AND CHARTS
  19. APPENDIX 2 – COLOURED FIGURES