Drivers of flood risk change in residential areas

Flood zoning of Bandar Abbas city and evaluation of the development trend of residential areas towards flood areas

Extended abstract   1- Introduction An examination of the number of floods in recent years shows that floods are no longer a rare sudden disaster, but a growing phenomenon that, at any given time, causes a lot of damage, including life and death. As a result of interference in natural environments, the presence of multiple structures, and the lack of appropriate measures to protect these env...

Mapping the flood-prone areas for developing a flood risk management system in the northeast of Iran

Defining a step change of aircraft noise in residential areas

Aircraft noise is characterized by intermittent noise events which vary in number and level from day to day, from one season to another, and usually show a gradual increase of the number of flights and a gradual decrease of the LAeq from year to year. Since a real or expected step change in aircraft noise often causes strong change reactions in residential areas, which cannot be predicted by st...

A Framework for Flood Risk Analysis and Benefit Assessment of Flood Control Measures in Urban Areas

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. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical framework for flood risk analysis and benefit assessment of flood control measures in urban areas. Based on the concept of disaster ri...

Rational adaptation to increasing flood risk? Institutional drivers of and barriers to risk-based flood management in Germany and Britain

Introduction How do developed societies adapt to the increasing flooding? Which role do instruments associated with the concept of risk play in this adaptation? In which ways does the role of risk instruments in flood management vary between countries? How can the nature of and variation in flood regimes in different countries be explained? Over the last two decades, questions about how societi...