Review on Urban Flood Risk Assessment

Cailin Li, Na Sun, Yihui Lu (), Baoyun Guo, Yue Wang, Xiaokai Sun and Yukai Yao
Additional contact information
Cailin Li: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Na Sun: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Yihui Lu: Geographic Information Engineering, Shandong Provincial Institute of Land Surveying and Mapping, Jinan 250102, China
Baoyun Guo: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Yue Wang: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Xiaokai Sun: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Yukai Yao: School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Under the background of rapid urban development and continuous climate change, frequent floods around the world have caused serious economic losses and social problems, which has become the main reason for the sustainable development of cities. Flood disaster risk assessment is an important non-engineering measure in urban disaster prevention and mitigation, and scientific flood disaster risk assessment is the premise and foundation of flood disaster risk management. This paper summarizes the current situation of flood risk assessment by analyzing the international literature in recent 20 years. The mechanism of flood disaster is mainly discussed. The flood disaster assessment methods are summarized, including historical disaster statistics method, multi-criteria index system method, remote sensing and GIS (Geographic Information System) coupling method, scenario simulation evaluation method and machine learning method. Furthermore, the development status of flood risk analysis and forecasting is summarized. Finally, the development trend and direction of flood risk assessment are put forward.

Keywords: urban flood; risk assessment; disaster-causing mechanism; review; assessment indicators; flooding forecast (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/765/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/1/765/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2022:i:1:p:765-:d:1021786

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().