Ecohydrology and flood risk management under climate vulnerability in relation to the sustainable development goals (SDGs): a case study in Nagaa Mobarak Village, Egypt

Marwa M. Aly, Neveen H. Refay, Hoda Elattar, Karim M. Morsy, Erick R. Bandala, Samir A. Zein and Mohamed K. Mostafa ()
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Marwa M. Aly: Helwan University
Neveen H. Refay: Badr University in Cairo (BUC)
Hoda Elattar: University of Twente
Karim M. Morsy: Ministry of Environment
Erick R. Bandala: Desert Research Institute
Samir A. Zein: Helwan University
Mohamed K. Mostafa: Badr University in Cairo (BUC)

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2022, vol. 112, issue 2, No 5, 1107-1135

Abstract: Abstract This article aims to provide a thorough assessment of water quality and quantity incorporating the estimation of future patterns as a result of climate change from economic, environmental and social perspectives. Its scope extends from studying the physical parameters and rainfall patterns to maintaining an environmental flow with a better water quality using ecohydrological techniques. The village of Nagaa Mobarak in Souhag, Egypt, is taken as a case study being in a critical location that is vulnerable to flash floods. This paper managed to quantify change in water quantity and quality due to the impacts of flash floods and climate change. Several traditional engineering alternatives are proposed for flood management such as constructing a dam, a storage pond and a routing channel to the nearest water body; as well as non-traditional ecohydrological alternatives such as constructing a dam with vegetated foreshore, natural levees and constructed wetlands. The results of applying these methods for our case study showed that a hybrid solution that employs both traditional and non-traditional solutions for flood management is optimal. A constructed wetland along a section of the constructed channel for diverting flow into the Nagaa Hammade Canal would decrease the runoff volume and peak time so that the capacity of the Canal is not exceeded in a flood event and purifies the incoming stormwater improving its quality and the health of the ecosystem within the canal. Moreover, our proposed approach was investigated and found to target 10 out of the 17 UN SDGs.

Keywords: Climate change; Ecohydrology; Nature-based solutions; Flood risk management; Hydrological modeling; SDGs; Structural flood management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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