Urban Flood Resilience - A case study on how to integrate flood resilience in urban planning.
(2015) In TVVR-15/5005 VVR820 20151Division of Water Resources Engineering
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Climate change and increasing urbanization gives societies great challenges in managing urban planning for a sustainable future. Urbanization aggravates floods by increasing the amount of impermeable surfaces and by modifying flow routes. Resilience is the capability to recover from a stress and high resilience is seen as the goal of a healthy development. By including the concept of resilience in flood risk analysis and decision making, flood control will be more complete and intrinsically more sustainable. This project investigates how flood resilience can be modeled in a way that allows spatialization. An index called Spatialized urban Flood RESilience Index, S-FRESI, was built and tested with promising results. It can be used to... (More)
- Climate change and increasing urbanization gives societies great challenges in managing urban planning for a sustainable future. Urbanization aggravates floods by increasing the amount of impermeable surfaces and by modifying flow routes. Resilience is the capability to recover from a stress and high resilience is seen as the goal of a healthy development. By including the concept of resilience in flood risk analysis and decision making, flood control will be more complete and intrinsically more sustainable. This project investigates how flood resilience can be modeled in a way that allows spatialization. An index called Spatialized urban Flood RESilience Index, S-FRESI, was built and tested with promising results. It can be used to measure and visualize the changes in flood resilience obtained by flood control measures. The index show areas that are particularly vulnerable to flood hazards and where suggested flood measures enhances the resilience. (Less)
- Popular Abstract
- Every year billions of people get affected by floods and the economic losses are among the highest when it comes to natural disasters. Depending on your social class the consequences of a flood can vary greatly. An urban flood resilience index, S-FRESI, can be used to identify extra sensitive areas and strengthen these neighborhoods to create a more resilient society.
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- author
- Bertilsson, Louise LU and Wiklund, Karin
- supervisor
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- Rolf Larsson LU
- organization
- course
- VVR820 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainable urban drainage, urban development, urban flood, resilience, risk, flood resilience, flood resilience index, Rio de Janeiro
- publication/series
- TVVR-15/5005
- report number
- 15/5005
- ISSN
- 1101-9824
- language
- English
- additional info
- Examiner: Cintia Bertacchi Uvo
- id
- 8161043
- date added to LUP
- 2015-11-10 09:13:25
- date last changed
- 2019-03-29 15:38:57
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