Drivers of changing urban flood risk : A framework for action
(2019) In Journal of Environmental Management 240(March). p.47-56- Abstract
This study focuses on drivers for changing urban flood risk. We suggest a framework for guiding climate change adaptation action concerning flood risk and manageability in cities. The identified key drivers of changing flood hazard and vulnerability are used to provide an overview of each driver's impact on flood risk and manageability at the city level. We find that identified drivers for urban flood risk can be grouped in three different priority areas with different time horizon. The first group has high impact but is manageable at city level. Typical drivers in this group are related to the physical environment such as decreasing permeability and unresponsive engineering. The second group of drivers is represented by public... (More)
This study focuses on drivers for changing urban flood risk. We suggest a framework for guiding climate change adaptation action concerning flood risk and manageability in cities. The identified key drivers of changing flood hazard and vulnerability are used to provide an overview of each driver's impact on flood risk and manageability at the city level. We find that identified drivers for urban flood risk can be grouped in three different priority areas with different time horizon. The first group has high impact but is manageable at city level. Typical drivers in this group are related to the physical environment such as decreasing permeability and unresponsive engineering. The second group of drivers is represented by public awareness and individual willingness to participate and urbanization and urban sprawl. These drivers may be important and are manageable for the cities and they involve both short-term and long-term measures. The third group of drivers is related to policy and long-term changes. This group is represented by economic growth and increasing values at risk, climate change, and increasing complexity of society. They have all high impact but low manageability. Managing these drivers needs to be done in a longer time perspective, e.g., by developing long-term policies and exchange of ideas.
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- author
- organization
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- Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
- MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
- Division of Water Resources Engineering
- Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
- Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
- Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre)
- Division of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- AgriFood Economics Centre, Lund University School of Economics and Management
- publishing date
- 2019-03-19
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Climate change, Urban flood management, Urban flood risk
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- Journal of Environmental Management
- volume
- 240
- issue
- March
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85063979518
- pmid:30928794
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.094
- project
- Sustainable Urban Flood Management
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 698635a7-7a58-43ef-8d09-97577eac7dd6
- date added to LUP
- 2019-03-29 14:28:48
- date last changed
- 2024-01-15 16:52:27
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