Download or read book Flood Damage Survey and Assessment written by Daniela Molinari and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods can have a devastating impact on life, property and economic resources. However, the systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events can contribute to future risk mitigation. Such data can support a variety of actions including the identification of priorities for intervention during emergencies, the creation of complete event scenarios to tailor risk mitigation strategies, the definition of victim compensation schemes, and the validation of damage models to feed cost-benefit analysis of mitigation actions. Volume highlights include: Compilation of real world case studies elaborating on the survey experiences and best practices associated with flood damage data collection, storage and analysis, that can help strategize flood risk mitigation in an efficient manner Coverage of different flooding phenomena such as riverine and mountain floods, spatial analysis from local to global scales, and stakeholder perspectives, e.g. public decision makers, researchers, private companies Contributions from leading experts in the field, researchers and practitioners, including civil protection actors working at different spatial and administrative level, insurers, and professionals working in the field of natural hazard risks mitigation Flood Damage Survey and Assessment: New Insights from Research and Practice will be a valuable resource for earth scientists, hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, geographers, civil engineers, insurers, policy makers, and planners. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/the-value-of-disaster-damage-data

Download or read book Flood Damage Survey and Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flood risk analysis is more complex in urban areas than that in rural areas because of their closely packed buildings, different kinds of land uses, and large number of flood control works and drainage systems. According to the 2015 China flood and drought report, more than 100 cities have suffered waterlogging per year since 2006. The numbers of waterlogged cities were 130 in 2008, 258 in 2010, and 234 in 2013, respectively. Nearly 62% of 351 cities were waterlogged between 2008 and 2010. The vast majority of flooding and waterlogging disasters are caused by local extreme rainstorms. This enables the determination of the critical points in terms of flooding impacts, and highlights the need to implement strategies to cope with these impacts. Nowadays, flood control has been replaced by flood management concept in terms of living with flood, making benefit of it, and minimizing its losses. The success in flood management in any region depends on the evaluation of different types of flood losses. For the assessment of flood damages, this requires the use of stage-damage functions for different categories of land use. This book aims to propose a practical framework for flood risk analysis and hazards assessment and flood control measures in rural and urban areas from leading experts in the field, researchers and practitioners, including professionals working in the field of natural hazards mitigation. Based on the concept of disaster risk triangle (hazard, vulnerability and exposure), a comprehensive analysis of methods and general procedures were proposed for urban flood risk analysis. Urban Flood Simulation Model (UFSM) and Urban Flood Damage Assessment Model (UFDAM) were proposed to estimate the flood risk. A review is presented of the methods used to construct stage-damage function curves for residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial category. A good compilation of real world case studies elaborating on the survey experiences and best practices associated with flood damage data collection, storage and analysis, that can help strategize flood risk mitigation in an efficient manner.

Download or read book Flood Damage Survey and Assessment written by Daniela Molinari and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods can have a devastating impact on life, property and economic resources. However, the systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events can contribute to future risk mitigation. Such data can support a variety of actions including the identification of priorities for intervention during emergencies, the creation of complete event scenarios to tailor risk mitigation strategies, the definition of victim compensation schemes, and the validation of damage models to feed cost-benefit analysis of mitigation actions. Volume highlights include: Compilation of real world case studies elaborating on the survey experiences and best practices associated with flood damage data collection, storage and analysis, that can help strategize flood risk mitigation in an efficient manner Coverage of different flooding phenomena such as riverine and mountain floods, spatial analysis from local to global scales, and stakeholder perspectives, e.g. public decision makers, researchers, private companies Contributions from leading experts in the field, researchers and practitioners, including civil protection actors working at different spatial and administrative level, insurers, and professionals working in the field of natural hazard risks mitigation Flood Damage Survey and Assessment: New Insights from Research and Practice will be a valuable resource for earth scientists, hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, geographers, civil engineers, insurers, policy makers, and planners. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/the-value-of-disaster-damage-data

Download or read book Flood Damage Assessment and Management written by Martina Zeleňáková and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art, essential methods and tools for flood risk assessment and management. The costs of damage caused by extreme weather events, among which floods are a major category, are rapidly rising, both globally and across Europe. The scope and scale of flood episodes point to the need for comprehensive proposals, including the implementation of flood protection measures in areas exposed to flood risk. This book is dedicated to flood damage assessment, and addresses the management of social, economic and environmental damage. It develops a general methodology for flood risk assessment and presents a range of effective flood protection methods in keeping with the objectives of flood risk management. As such, it offers a valuable resource for young researchers, academics, lecturers and water management practitioners alike.

Download or read book Flood Recovery Innovation and Response IV written by D. Proverbs and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. Set up to promote research into this area of study, this book contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response. When flooding occurs in populated areas, it can cause substantial damage to property as well as threatening human life. In addition, many more people must endure the homelessness, upset and disruption that are left in the wake of floods. The increased frequency of flooding in the last few years, coupled with climate change predictions and urban development, suggest that these statistics are set to worsen in the future. Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious impacts of floods upon households, other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer term health issues including stress related illness. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life threatening events. This book covers a wide range of technical and management topics related to flooding and its impacts on communities, property and people. These include: Flood Modelling; Risk Assessment; Flood Management; Considering ‘Blue-Green’ Approaches to Flood Risk Management; Property-level Flooding and Health Consequences; State-of-the-art Flooding-damage Survey and Assessment; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Adaptation to Flood Risk.

Download or read book Flood Damage Assessment and Survey of Mitigation Efforts at Stump Lake North Dakota written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study provides a case history of a pervasive, chronic flood hazard not routinely addressed by federal flood mitigation programs.

Download or read book Flood Damage Assessment written by Anupam Pandey and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The damage caused by floods in term of loss of life, property and economic loss due to disruption of economic activity are all too well known. Estimation of economic flood damage is gaining greater importance as flood risk management is becoming important throughout South Asia. Damage assessments due to floods supply crucial information to decision support and policy development in the fields of flood management. Despite the fact that considerable research effort have been carried out and progress has been made on damage data collection, data analysis in recent years, there still seems to be a mismatch between the relevance of damage assessments and the quality of the available datasets and estimates. Application of Remote Sensing and GIS need to be integrated with empirical data collected from field for providing consistent, reliable data to scientists and administrators.

Download or read book Flood Damage Assessment Survey of Twenty eight Archeological Sites Along the Cannonball Heart James Maple Red and Sheyenne Rivers North Dakota written by Dennis L. Toom and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Economic Development Procedures Manual urban Flood Damage written by Allan S. Mills and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flood Damage Assessments Using Spatial Data Management Techniques written by Darryl W. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center has developed techniques that perform the spatial data analysis approach and individual structure approach and work is near completion on an integrated analysis package. The capability therefore exists to perform damage appraisals in a manner that encourages a general geographic and land use approach (thus greatly facilitating the study of nonstructural measures) while preserving the ability to analyze individual, unique structures should the need arise. This paper discusses the basic concepts of a spatial data management approach to damage appraisals and highlight(s) its integrated use with more traditional individual structure approaches. Selected example results are presented"--Page 2

Download or read book Industrial Flood Losses written by Robert William Kates and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flood Damage and Vulnerability Assessment for Hurricane Sandy in New York City written by Fang Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Recently, flood damage raises a great concern due to the increasing weather extremes and fast urbanization speed. However, due to limited damage data and crude methodology in this field, few flood damage studies could provide accurate results for flood management. To evaluate current methods of flood damage assessment and provide effective information for flood planning, this study investigate and evaluate the damage assessment method e.g. loss functions which are widely used in damage studies, and study the social vulnerability of local residents as auxiliary information to explain the total flood damage of Hurricane Sandy in New York City. Firstly, two types of loss functions are applied to the flood damage on buildings and subways. The estimates thus obtained is then, compared with the real flood loss report from FEMA. Secondly, as the current benchmark and terminology of flood are based on 1/100 year flood event, current flood protection strategies based on such 1/100 year criteria is facing increasing challenges due to the raising intensity or frequency of floods today. Therefore, a comparison between Sandy's floodplain and FEMA-produced 1/100 year floodplain is made to improve the awareness and understanding of Sandy's impact as well as current flood planning. With the consideration of the crude methodologies and limited data of damage study, the third task is to generate a social vulnerability (SoVI) map to account for social and economic damages which are hard to be estimated through current loss functions. The study is ended with several conclusions: 1), those loss functions which only use inundation depth cannot accurately estimate the flood damage in each county. Wind speed could be another indispensable indicator expressing the flood hazard. The damage estimate of subways should include the damage of subway station. In addition, improving the estimates of loss functions for different kinds of objects or property need further adjustments with their attributes, such as quality, age and resistance to the flood; 2) Comparing Sandy's floodplain with 1/100 year flood risk map, a significant difference exists. Apparently, the larger area and buildings within Sandy's inundated area will result in much severer damage. Thus, to improve the efficiency of flood mitigation and preparedness, continuously update the flood map in government based on the flood risk and protection cost is needed; and 3) the vulnerability map could provide auxiliary information to explain the indirect and intangible flood damage resulted from social inequality. Integrating the social vulnerability index into damage assessment to provide more comprehensive damage information would be a promising direction in future studies.

Download or read book Flood Risk Assessment and Management written by S. Mambretti and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in a new series to cover different aspects related to Safety and Security Engineering in order to reach a comprehensive view on risk mitigation.The volume is devoted to floods, as one-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the respective victims are flood-related. A burgeoning global population and growing wealth, particularly in the last two or three decades, have increased the risk and the demand for protection from flooding. These features, together with climate change predictions and urban development, are affecting the way flood risk is managed.Knowledge and scientific tools play a role of paramount importance in the strain of coping with flooding problems, along with the capacity building in the context of political and administrative framework. Therefore, governments need to establish clear institutional, financial and social mechanisms and processes for flood risk management in order to ensure the safety of people and property and, thereby, contribute to both flood defence and sustainable development.The present volume contains selected papers presented at the Conferences organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology. The papers have been revised by the Authors, in order to be up-to-date and integrated in the book, which covers the following topics: - Risk assessment - Mathematical models for flood propagation - Effect of topographic data resolution - Social and psychological aspects - Decision making and management - Legislations and directives - Alternatives in flood protection - Response and recovery - Damages and economic-related problems - Case studies The quality of the material makes the volume a most valuable and up-to-date tool for professionals, scientists, and managers to appreciate the state-of-the-art in this important field of knowledge.

Download or read book Plan of Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Shoreland damage survey is planned to record shoreland survey is planned to record shoreland damages resulting from erosion and flooding on the Great Lakes shoreline in the U.S. The high-water period of 1972-1975 caused damage to shore properties by both inundation and greatly accelerated shore erosion due to wave action ... The study is divided into three phases: Phase I - Pilot study program (FY 1975), Phase II - Shore damage survey, Phase III - Summary report."--Page i. This report outlines the nature and design of the study, not the results.

Download or read book Damages Assessment of Flood written by Tashif Ahmad and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, grade: A, GC University, language: English, abstract: Flood damage assessment is the estimation of possible damages which occurred due to the floods of 2010 and 2013. In this study some variable are selected to find out total damages. On the basis of those variables damages can be calculated. The significance of the research is to calculate the damages in District Chiniot due to the floods in past. The local government will use it as basic information to make policies and implement to overcome the damages of flood. The local government will be able to decrease the damages of flood. The research will also help to aware the people about the loss of the agriculture crops and livestock.

Download or read book Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reducing flood damage is a complex task that requires multidisciplinary understanding of the earth sciences and civil engineering. In addressing this task the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employs its expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, and geotechnical and structural engineering. Dams, levees, and other river-training works must be sized to local conditions; geotechnical theories and applications help ensure that structures will safely withstand potential hydraulic and seismic forces; and economic considerations must be balanced to ensure that reductions in flood damages are proportionate with project costs and associated impacts on social, economic, and environmental values. A new National Research Council report, Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, reviews the Corps of Engineers' risk-based techniques in its flood damage reduction studies and makes recommendations for improving these techniques. Areas in which the Corps has made good progress are noted, and several steps that could improve the Corps' risk-based techniques in engineering and economics applications for flood damage reduction are identified. The report also includes recommendations for improving the federal levee certification program, for broadening the scope of flood damage reduction planning, and for improving communication of risk-based concepts.

Download or read book Problems and Methods of Flood Damage Assessment written by Dennis J. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: