Integrated Strategies for the Management of Wadi Flash Floods in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Arid Zones: The ISFF Project

Kantoush, Sameh A.; Saber, Mohamed; Abdel-Fattah, Mohammed; Sumi, Tetsuya

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-2904-4_1

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“…According to [29], in the Arab countries' region, the trend of flash flood occurrence is clearly increasing, and from fifteen countries, only three face a low frequency of flash flood, and in the year of 2015, around nineteen extreme flash floods occurred in the region, which is mostly an arid region.…”

Section: Natural Risks Overall the World And Arab Regionmentioning

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Structural and Non-structural Measures Integration through Multi-hazard Risk Approach - Sohag Governorate as an Example

Seddeek

2023

SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Applicati

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Egypt, as a developing country, has a long history of facing natural risks. In most cases, the authorities depend on the reactive approach instead of the proactive one, which is the core of disaster risk management. This makes the structural measures to deal with the natural risks the main step without looking at the non-structural measures like land-use control and risk management planning. As a trial to help such countries enhance the application of disaster risk management, two cornerstones will be suggested: the first is the integration of structural and non-structural measures, and the second is the use of a multi-hazard risk approach. This approach will help to avoid single-risk measures by mapping all correlated risks and creating a risk zone map, guiding future planning strategies, and controlling land-use to avoid social and economic loss and mitigate the negative effect in the event of an unpredictable hazard. The application for the Sohag governorate at the regional level confirms the absence of risk management in the regional plans due to many imbalances, the most important of which is the failure to define the risk zones and match the suggested future land-use with the level of risks.

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Section: Natural Risks Overall the World And Arab Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural and Non-structural Measures Integration through Multi-hazard Risk Approach - Sohag Governorate as an Example

Seddeek

2023

SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Applicati

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“…In the last 10 years, as one of the projections of climate change in arid regions [1], flash flood, a flood with short duration and a high peak discharge, is becoming more intense and frequent. The Wadis rainfall can be described (before the year 2003, usually in October or November) as episodic that has a wide spatial and temporal variation [2], although no precipitation has been received for many years.…”

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Assessing the Safety of Settlements from Flood Risk

Amin¹,

Gaber²,

Keshta³

et al. 2022

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The fact that Egypt falls within the arid and semi-arid areas, makes it always vulnerable to sudden storms, which have increased significantly during the past ten years. Climate change is one of the factors that cause the increasing of the sudden storms frequency, intensity and expansion to cover new areas. During three days, from November 11 to 13, 2021, a severe storm hit the city of Aswan and its suburbs, leaving behind extensive property damage and loss of life. Where heavy rains, fell in a short time, on the Eastern Desert Mountains led to torrential rains (flash flood) that flowed to the plains through the paths of the valleys, causing severe damage to several villages, which are located in the hydrologically active valleys (Al-Heita, Al-Kimab, Umm Buirat and Abu Al-Rish Qebli). In this paper, the November 2021 storm will be analyzed using Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) data, with temporal and special resolution of 30 minutes and 0.1° respectively. The data will give a distribution of the storm for each 1 hour during the storm for three days. The amount of water and its velocity will also be simulated using the (HEC-HMS) hydrological model. In addition, the (HEC-RAC) model is used in order to simulate the distribution and expansion of the flood during the storm time step. The results provide an actual simulation of what happened during the 2021 storm. In addition, this model is applied again with the highest values to produce the worst scenario. The final part of this paper highlights the value of this model as a supportive tool for urban planning to achieve sustainability. So, both results of the simulation and the worst scenario were compared to the development plan of the study area. Then, the suitable planning recommendations were accordingly suggested for the areas at risk to ensure sustainable future development.

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Rainwater Harvesting for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Flood Mitigation in the MENA Region

El-Rawy,

Wahba,

Fathi

2024

Earth and Environmental Sciences Library

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Integrated Strategies for the Management of Wadi Flash Floods in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Arid Zones: The ISFF Project

Cited by 6 publications

References 93 publications

Structural and Non-structural Measures Integration through Multi-hazard Risk Approach - Sohag Governorate as an Example

Structural and Non-structural Measures Integration through Multi-hazard Risk Approach - Sohag Governorate as an Example

Assessing the Safety of Settlements from Flood Risk

Rainwater Harvesting for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Flood Mitigation in the MENA Region

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