Urban flood disaster management

Non-structural Measures in Urban Flood Management

The use of flood risk map for flood management (urban area of Nekarood)

Flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. This case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. Therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. Considering the development in Iran has been carried out in high risk...

Metaheuristics in Flood Disaster Management and Risk Assessment

A conceptual area is divided into units or barangays, each was allowed to evolve under a physical constraint. A risk assessment method is then used to identify the flood risk in each community using the following risk factors: the area's urbanized area ratio, literacy rate, mortality rate, poverty incidence, radio/TV penetration, and state of structural and non-structural measures. Vulnerabilit...

Autonomous Notification and Situation Reporting for Flood Disaster Management

Failed management in emergency response effort due to inefficient and ineffective operation influences the adoption of information and communication technology specifically the Internet technology and World Wide Web. Timeliness, rapid response and efficient information dissemination are crucial in emergency management. This paper proposes a software design architecture taking advantage of the i...

Why are decisions in flood disaster management so poorly supported by information from flood models?

Flood simulation models can provide practitioners of Flood Disaster Management with sophisticated estimates of floods. Despite the advantages that flood simulation modeling may provide, experiences have proven that these models are of limited use. Until now, this problem has mainly been investigated by evaluations of which information is demanded by decision-makers versus what models can actual...