Highway flood disaster risk evaluation and management in China

Bin Ou-Yang (), Chun-Chao Chu, Yabin Da (), Xiao-Fei Liu and Hai-Ying Zhang

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 75, issue 2, 397 pages

Abstract: Flood disaster has become one of the most damaging natural disasters for the highway transportation all around the world, especially its destructive effects on highway infrastructures. In order to better understand the ruinous influence of flood disaster on highway transportation in China, this paper proposes an alternative evaluation index of highway flood disaster risk from three aspects, namely the disaster-causing factors, disaster-inducing environment, and disaster-bearing subjects. This paper also puts forward some targeted suggestions for the risk management, including two aspects: physical protection measurement and organization and management measurement. Moreover, this paper develops a highway flood disaster risk management system by using the ArcGIS technology. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Highway; Flood disaster; Vulnerability; Risk evaluation; Risk management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1488-6

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