Urban flood impact assessment: A state-of-the-art review

作者：Michael Hammond, Albert Chen, Slobodan Djordjević, David Butler, Ole Mark · 发表于：Urban Water Journal · 年份：2013 · DOI：10.1080/1573062x.2013.857421 · 被引用次数：709 · 研究领域：Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Disaster Management and Resilience、Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Flooding can cause major disruptions in cities, and lead to significant impacts on people, the economy and on the environment. These impacts may be exacerbated by climate and socio-economic changes. Resilience thinking has become an important way for city planners and decision makers to manage flood risks.Despite different definitions of resilience, a consistent theme is that flood resilient cities are impacted less by extreme flood events. Therefore, flood risk professionals and planners need to understand flood impacts to build flood resilient cities. This paper presents a state-of-the-art literature review on flood impact assessment in urban areas, detailing their application, and their limitations. It describes both techniques for dealing with individual categories of impacts, as well as methodologies for integrating them. The paper will also identify future avenues for progress in improving the techniques.