Multi-scale comparison of urban socio-economic vulnerability in the Washington, DC metropolitan region resulting from compound flooding
| Autor: | Felício Cassalho, Tugkan Tanir, Celso M. Ferreira, Selina J. Sumi, Gustavo de A. Coelho, Andre de Souza de Lima, Sukru Uzun |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Flood myth Vulnerability index fungi Flooding (psychology) 0211 other engineering and technologies Vulnerability food and beverages Storm surge Geology Storm 02 engineering and technology Building and Construction Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology 01 natural sciences Metropolitan area humanities Pluvial parasitic diseases Environmental science Water resource management Safety Research geographic locations 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 61:102362 |
| ISSN: | 2212-4209 |
| Popis: | The co-occurrence of different flood types (i.e. compound floods), such as coastal storms, riverine flow, and urban pluvial runoff, can cause severe damage to urban areas. Like many U.S. metropolitan regions along the coast, the Washington, DC metropolitan area, where increasing precipitation rates and sea-level rise have been observed, is vulnerable to the impacts from such events. This study aims to evaluate urban socio-economic vulnerability in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region resulting from compound flooding at multiple scales. The socioeconomic damages from riverine flood and storm surges, which is defined as exposure index, were combined with the Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index (SOVI) in order to detect vulnerable populations to compound flood events at a range of scales (tract, group, and block). The highest damage was found on the banks of the Potomac River in the compound flood scenario. A high-precipitation scenario was also performed, leading to severe damages in locations with denser infrastructures, such as DC. The multi-scale comparison suggested that block scale analysis is more sensitive to vulnerability and flood damages compared to coarser scales, i.e., group and tract. The distribution of the risk was found significantly dependent on both the type of the compound flood event and the scale of the analysis. From a flood management perspective, coarser scale assessments can mislead efforts as it is not able to highlight specific locations with substantial vulnerable populations. The method presented in this study can potentially aid decision-makers to identify the vulnerable populations to compound floods in large coastal metropolitan areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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