Estimating the Impacts of Urban Growth on Future Flood Risk

A Comparative Study

Willem Veerbeek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

2018
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-38157-5 (ISBN)

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The unprecedented growth of cities has a significant impact on future flood risk that might exceed the impacts of climate change in many metropolitan areas across the world. Although the effects of urbanisation on flood risk are well understood, assessments that include spatially explicit future growth projections are limited.

This comparative study provides insight in the long term development of future riverine and pluvial flood risk for 18 fast growing megacities. The outcomes provide not only a baseline absent in current practise, but also a strategic outlook that might better establish the role of urban planning in limiting future flood risk.

Willem Veerbeek is one of the founders of the Flood Resilience Group at UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He has a wide experience in flood adaptation of urban areas in The Netherlands as well as internationally. His work was instrumental in the refinement of national flood impact assessment tools, which were tested in Dutch paradigm shifting projects like UFM-Dordrecht and Rotterdam-based projects in the Dutch Knowledge for Climate programme. He worked extensively in megacities like Beijing, Dhaka and Mumbai where his work focussed on the development of long term urban growth projections and their impact on future flood risk. Strengthening UNESCO-IHE’s mission in capacity development, William has been training many cities in climate adaption, especially in Southeast Asia. Currently he is developing a city-to-city learning network on green-blue infrastructure in the North Sea region.

1 Memetic algorithm optimised urban growth model
2 Urban growth projections
3 Future riverine flooding in megacities
4 Assessing the effects of urban growth on urban drainage
5 Adding depth: Estimating flood damages in Dhaka
6 Further explorations

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-38157-8 / 1138381578
ISBN-13	978-1-138-38157-5 / 9781138381575
Zustand	Neuware