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Sara Maria Lerer, Francesco Righetti, Thomas Rozario and Peter Steen Mikkelsen
The city of Copenhagen currently pursues a very ambitious plan to make the city ?cloudburst proof? within the next 30 years. The cloudburst management plan has the potential to support the city?s aim to become more green, liveable, and sustainable. In th...
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Jinglu Song, Bo Huang and Rongrong Li
Building ?disaster-resilient? rather than ?disaster-resistant? cities/communities requires the development of response capabilities to natural disasters and subsequent recovery. This study devises a new method to measure resilience via recovery capabilit...
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George Karavokiros, Archontia Lykou, Ifigenia Koutiva, Jelena Batica, Antonis Kostaridis, Alida Alves and Christos Makropoulos
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While flood risk is evolving as one of the most imminent natural hazards and the shift from a reactive decision environment to a proactive one sets the basis of the latest thinking in flood management, the need to equip decision makers with necessary too...
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Johanna Sörensen, Andreas Persson, Catharina Sternudd, Henrik Aspegren, Jerry Nilsson, Jonas Nordström, Karin Jönsson, Misagh Mottaghi, Per Becker, Petter Pilesjö, Rolf Larsson, Ronny Berndtsson and Shifteh Mobini
Urban flooding is of growing concern due to increasing densification of urban areas, changes in land use, and climate change. The traditional engineering approach to flooding is designing single-purpose drainage systems, dams, and levees. These methods, ...
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Steven A. Hughes and Christopher I. Thornton
Engineers require estimates of tolerable overtopping limits for grass-covered levees, dikes, and embankments that might experience steady overflow. Realistic tolerance estimates can be used for both resilient design and risk assessment. A simple framewor...
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