A framework for risk-based assessment of urban floods in coastal cities

M. Dinesh Kumar (), Shubham Tandon (), Nitin Bassi (), Pradipta Kumar Mohanty (), Saurabh Kumar () and Manish Mohandas ()
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M. Dinesh Kumar: Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)
Shubham Tandon: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Nitin Bassi: Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)
Pradipta Kumar Mohanty: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Saurabh Kumar: Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)
Manish Mohandas: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2022, vol. 110, issue 3, No 29, 2035-2057

Abstract: Abstract Many coastal cities in developing countries are at the risk of flooding due to a progressive increase in the built-up areas and poor management of storm water. The flooding situation in coastal cities gets accentuated further due to climate-induced natural disasters such as cyclones and climate change-induced sea-level rise that adversely impact the city's natural drainage potential. This study developed a composite urban flood risk index consisting of three sub-indices and 20 key natural, physical, social, and economic influencing variables for a coastal city (i.e., Cuttack) in eastern India, the intensity of storm run-off being one among the many. The intensity–duration–frequency curve developed shows that the city can experience floods with a peak discharge of 1320 cubic metre per second every alternate year for a rainfall intensity of 2-h duration. The urban flood risk index computed for all the city wards shows that out of the 59 wards, only one ward has low flood risk (index value

Keywords: Eastern India; Coastal cities; Climate-induced disasters; Urban flood risk index; Flood management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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