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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Kuo-Hsin Tseng, Tsun-Hua Yang, Pei-Yuan Chen, Hwa Chien, Chi-Farn Chen and Yi-Chan Hung
Changes in the global climate have induced densified rainfall and caused natural hazards across the world in recent years. Formed by a central mountain range and a corridor of alluvial plains to the west, Taiwan is at risk of flood hazards owing to its l...
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Hongyuan Zhang, Dongliang Shen, Shaowu Bao, Leonard Pietrafesa, Paul T. Gayes and Hamed Majidzadeh
Stormwater management ponds (SMPs) protect coastal communities from flooding caused by heavy rainfall and runoff. If the SMPs are submerged under seawater during a tropical cyclone (TC) and its storm surge, their function will be compromised. Under clima...
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Tomasz Opach, Carlo Navarra, Jan Ketil Rød and Tina-Simone Neset
People living in urban areas are often exposed to heat and inundation caused by heavy rains. Therefore, pedestrian routing in areas exposed to weather-related threats can be of value to citizens. In this study, water accumulated on roads, sidewalks and f...
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Jae-Yeong Lee and Ji-Sung Kim
As a result of rapid urbanization and population movement, flooding in urban areas has become one of the most common types of natural disaster, causing huge losses of both life and property. To mitigate and prevent the damage caused by the recent increas...
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Hai-Min Lyu, Ye-Shuang Xu, Wen-Chieh Cheng and Arul Arulrajah
The Yangtze River Basin and Huaihe River Basin in Southern China experienced severe floods 1998 and 2016. The reasons for the flooding hazards include the following two factors: hazardous weather conditions and degradation of the hydrological environment...
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George Papaioannou, Andreas Efstratiadis, Lampros Vasiliades, Athanasios Loukas, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Antonios Koukouvinos, Ioannis Tsoukalas and Panayiotis Kossieris
An operational framework for flood risk assessment in ungauged urban areas is developed within the implementation of the EU Floods Directive in Greece, and demonstrated for Volos metropolitan area, central Greece, which is frequently affected by intense ...
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Hyung-Jun Kim, Dong Sop Rhee and Chang Geun Song
Extreme rainfall causes surface runoff to flow towards lowlands and subterranean facilities, such as subway stations and buildings with underground spaces in densely packed urban areas. These facilities and areas are therefore vulnerable to catastrophic ...
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Jinyan Sun, Lei Ding, Jiaze Li, Haiming Qian, Mengting Huang and Nan Xu
The spatial extent and area of river islands are always changing due to the impact of hydrodynamic conditions, sediment supply and human activities. A catastrophic flood disaster was driven by sustained and heavy rainfall around the middle and lower Yang...
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Edangodage Duminda Pradeep Perera, Takahiro Sayama, Jun Magome, Akira Hasegawa and Yoichi Iwami
Climatic variations caused by the excessive emission of greenhouse gases are likely to change the patterns of precipitation, runoff processes, and water storage of river basins. Various studies have been conducted based on precipitation outputs of the gl...
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