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Christos Iliadis, Panagiota Galiatsatou, Vassilis Glenis, Panagiotis Prinos and Chris Kilsby
The expansion of urban areas and the increasing frequency and magnitude of intense rainfall events are anticipated to contribute to the widespread escalation of urban flood risk across the globe. To effectively mitigate future flood risks, it is crucial ...
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Sina Razzaghi Asl
Globally, floods are becoming more severe, lasting longer, and occurring more frequently because of changes in climate, rapid urbanization, and changing human demographics. Although traditional structural flood mitigation infrastructures (e.g., drainage ...
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Chima Ibeanu, Mazyar Ghadiri Nejad and Matina Ghasemi
Emphasizing the need to provide a coordinated flood management strategy in the country and avoid acting in an isolated way when it occurs, improving the attitude of flood control during floods, and controlling floods with comprehensive analysis are among...
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Ana Monteiro, Johnson Ankrah, Helena Madureira and Maria Oliveira Pacheco
Urban areas continue to be the center of action for many countries due to their contribution to economic development. Many urban areas, through the urbanization process, have become vulnerable to climate risk, thereby making risk mitigation and adaptatio...
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Narcisa Gabriela Pricope and Greer Shivers
Flood mitigation in low-gradient, tidally-influenced, and rapidly urbanizing coastal locations remains a priority across a range of stakeholders and communities. Wetland ecosystems act as a natural flood buffer for coastal storms and sea level rise (SLR)...
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Alberto Fortelli, Alessandro Fedele, Giuseppe De Natale, Fabio Matano, Marco Sacchi, Claudia Troise and Renato Somma
The coastline of the Gulf of Naples, Italy, is characterized by a series of infrastructures of strategic importance, including touristic and commercial ports between Pozzuoli to Sorrento, main roads, railways, and urban areas. Furthermore, the Gulf of Na...
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Elizabeth M. Gallo, Colin D. Bell, Chelsea L. Panos, Steven M. Smith and Terri S. Hogue
Integrated decision support tools are needed to investigate the tradeoffs of stormwater control measures (SCMs) and determine the optimal suite of SCMs based on the needs of watersheds. In this study, an urbanized watershed undergoing infill development ...
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Ashraf Abdelkarim, Seham S. Al-Alola, Haya M. Alogayell, Soha A. Mohamed, Ibtesam I. Alkadi and Ismail Y. Youssef
Drainage basins in dry and semiarid environments are exposed to sudden, irregular flooding that poses a threat to urban areas and infrastructure. The associated risk is exacerbated by land use changes. Geomorphometric analyses of drainage basins based on...
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Roberta Pellicani, Alessandro Parisi, Gabriele Iemmolo and Ciro Apollonio
Estimating economic losses caused on buildings and other civil engineering works due to flooding events is often a difficult task. The accuracy of the estimate is affected by the availability of detailed data regarding the return period of the flooding e...
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Thi Thuy Ngo, Do Guen Yoo, Yong Sik Lee and Joong Hoon Kim
A detention reservoir is one of the most effective engineered solutions for flood damage mitigation in urban areas. Detention facilities are constructed to temporarily store storm water and then slowly drain when the peak period has passed. This delayed ...
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