Discourse, Strategy, and Practice of Urban Resilience against Flooding

Su, Yu Shou

doi:10.11114/bms.v2i1.1348

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“…Earliest mentions by Holling (1973), emphasize on resilience being a system's ability retract to the original position upon disturbance, speci cally in case of engineering or equilibrium resilience. The concept of resilience since the last decade has seen a gradual shift towards adaptive, evolutionary, and socialecological resilience compared to equilibrium resilience (Su 2016). Today in the twenty-rst century the meaning of resilience is bouncing forward rather than what it used to be "bouncing back".…”

Section: Urban Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Framework for Sustainable Urban Resilience During Disasters

Kamble

Desai

Lele³

2021

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The fast-growing population in developing countries coupled with the migration of the huge mass of village inhabitants to the large cities to seek better opportunities and safety conditions have been substantially increased the pressure on the existing urban infrastructure. This, coupled with the increased frequency of the natural as well as man-made disasters, presses the need for modern societies in large cities to search for pathways towards prevention, preparedness and recovery of this infrastructure in an event of a disaster. Owing to this, urban resilience has gained importance in the scientific context so as to explore the capabilities of cities to face and withstand extreme disaster events. Cities are complex adaptive and reconciling systems with a prospect to cope with resilience towards sustainability by effective use of transformational processes. Our study analyses urban resilience in the context of natural and man-made disasters across developing countries. In particular, this research first identifies the key elements of resilience and further studies them with a focus on different cities in developing economies as well as various types of disasters. Moreover, we investigate the urban resilience from the perspective of a case on dust storms in New Delhi, India. The outcome of the research enabled in developing an urban resilience framework with respect to urban infrastructure in the case of disasters. In particular, this framework aims to ensure an adequate level of sustainability, centred on humans and society.

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Section: Urban Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Framework for Sustainable Urban Resilience During Disasters

Kamble

Desai

Lele³

2021

Preprint

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“…This is as a result of the upsurge in many flood influencing factors, such as, rising sea levels, ice melt and increasing and excess rainfall (Meusburger & Alewell 2008;Schaller et al, 2016;Hall et al, 2018). Other contributing factors such as climate change, global warming and anthropogenic activities in flood-prone areas have significantly increased the risk (IPCC, 2012;Poussin et al, 2015;Kwak et al, 2015;Su, 2016). Yet, there are predictions of probable worse situations to come in some areas (IPCC, 2012;UNISDR, 2010).…”

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A fuzzy-analytic hierarchy process approach for measuring flood resilience at the individual property level

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Oladokun

2020

IJBPA

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PurposeRecent changes in climate, rainfall patterns, snow melt and rising sea levels coupled with an increase in urban development have increased the threat of flooding. To curb these threats and mitigate these damages, property-level approaches to improving resilience are now being encouraged as part of an integrated approach to flood risk management. This raises questions such as, what are the flood resilient attributes within individual properties, what is their importance and how can these be quantified. This research sought to develop a quantitative approach for the measurement of property-level flood resilience.Design/methodology/approachA synthesis of literature was undertaken to establish the main resilient attributes and their relevant sub-attributes. This process led to the development of a new method, named the Composite Flood Resilient Index (CFRI) to weight the attributes and sub-attributes of flood resilience based on their importance. The approach adopts the use of the fuzzy-analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) approach to quantify flood resilience.FindingsThe implications of the proposed methodology in determining the flood resilience of individual property, including the potential use in retrofitting activities, and the benefits to a range of stakeholders are considered.Social implicationsThe methodology offers the potential to support the measurement of flood resilience of individual properties, allowing the identification and prioritisation of specific interventions to improve the resilience of a property.Originality/valueWhereas previous attempts to quantify flood resilience have adopted qualitative approaches with some level of subjectivity, this proposed methodology represents an important advancement in developing a scientific and quantitative approach.

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“…The following describes the application of the model using three flood-prone communities in the United States. Following decades of experience in dealing with hazards and disasters, cities and institutions in the United States offer considerable information and insights in community resilience systems management (Su, 2016b). The two coastal states of North Carolina and Virginia are home to many flood-prone communities of various sizes with diverse socioeconomic and techno-ecological characteristics that readily lend themselves to a study of resilience.…”

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Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework

Oladokun

Montz

2019

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Community resilience has become an important policy and research concept for understanding and addressing the challenges associated with the interplay of climate change, urbanization, population growth, land use, sustainability, vulnerability and increased frequency of extreme flooding. Although measuring resilience has been identified as a fundamental step toward its understanding and effective management, there is, however, lack of an operational measurement framework due to the difficulty of systematically integrating socioeconomic and techno-ecological factors. The study examines the challenges, constraints and construct ramifications that have complicated the development of an operational framework for measuring resilience of flood-prone communities. Among others, the study highlights the issues of proliferation of definitions and conceptual frameworks of resilience, challenges of data availability, data variability and data compatibility. Adopting the National Academies' definition of resilience, a conceptual and mathematical model was developed using the dimensions, quantities and relationships established by the definition. A fuzzy logic equivalent of the model was implemented to generate resilience indices for three flood-prone communities in the United States. The results indicate that the proposed framework offers a viable approach for measuring community flood resilience, even when there is a limitation on data availability and compatibility.

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Discourse, Strategy, and Practice of Urban Resilience against Flooding

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Developing a Framework for Sustainable Urban Resilience During Disasters

Developing a Framework for Sustainable Urban Resilience During Disasters

A fuzzy-analytic hierarchy process approach for measuring flood resilience at the individual property level

Towards measuring resilience of flood-prone communities: a conceptual framework

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