Integration of flood risk assessment and spatial planning for disaster management in Egypt

Esmaiel, Aly; Abdrabo, Karim I.; Saber, Mohamed; Sliuzas, Richard; Atun, Funda; Kantoush, Sameh A.; Sumi, Tetsuya

doi:10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100245

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“…The new information from the remapping resulted in altered intentions about pursuing policy objectives and as such constitutes policyoriented learning [116]. That there was the necessary coordination between the authority generating the flood hazards maps and the authorities able to act on the information acquired cannot be taken for granted [117]. Policy learning here is instrumental, as the information generated from the remapping exercises was used to inform new decisions and actions required to mitigate the flood hazards as now understood [118,119].…”

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Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Michaels

2023

PLOS Water

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Flood protection is a leading priority for urban water sustainability. Making cities more resilient to flooding has become urgent as the climate changes and as cities increasingly become the loci of human population and resources. Reducing the risk of future flooding in cities often necessitates different jurisdictions working together. They may do so because they confront a shared problem. This was the case in the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, when partnering agencies shared a single focus on reducing flood risk from Beal Slough to the Nebraska State Penitentiary. In contrast, entities may band together to confront braided problems, intertwined problems that cannot be resolved independently. The Antelope Valley Project, also in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, combined addressing three problems, for which individual solutions had not been achieved: reducing flood risk from Antelope Creek, improving road transportation safety and capacity, and revitalizing neighborhoods with deteriorating physical structures. Such a scenario is becoming more frequent as cities increasingly face multiple demands on the same location. As this comparative case study demonstrates, there are implications for administrative coordination for whether flood risk reduction can be achieved as a sole focus of a project and when it cannot. The Antelope Valley Project necessitated an innovative management structure and governance process that the Beal Slough Project did not. In the Antelope Valley Project three different, stand-alone entities operating in dissimilar, substantive domains redirected their independent policies to harmonize their problem solving. Collaborative learning among policy actors in the Antelope Valley was more extensive and across policy domains than was required in the Beal Slough Project. Yet, both projects were triggered by policy-oriented learning from the remapping of their respective subwatersheds. The study contributes to understanding interdependency among policy problems and to reducing urban flood risk through administrative coordination.

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Section: Remapping As Policy-oriented Learningmentioning

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Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Michaels

2023

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“…The lack of consideration of meteorological disaster risk in the planning framework is also a factor in elevating risk. A significant amount of work on flood impacts in Egypt has not been integrated with spatial planning practices, and spatial planning projects at the local level have not mandated flood risk assessments, resulting in increased flood risk (Esmaiel et al, 2022). What is more, the existent studies also have limitations that can be described as follows: The risk was determined by considering only the hazard and loss components or the vulnerability of social aspects rather than the underlying surface (Alfieri et al, 2017; Anelli et al, 2022; Dong et al, 2020; Li et al, 2020; Merz et al, 2010; Wang, Zhai, & Song, 2021; Wolf & McGregor, 2013; Xu et al, 2016).…”

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Rainstorm and high‐temperature disaster risk assessment of territorial space in Beijing, China

Cheng

Fang

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Meteorological Applications

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It is important for territorial spatial planning to master meteorological disaster risk under the conditions of climate change and then carry out risk adaptation planning according to local conditions. Taking Beijing, a large city in China, as an example, a meteorological disaster risk assessment model was established based on the framework of hazard factors, disaster‐bearing body exposure, and vulnerability of underlying surface. Combined with 11 years of observation data from 293 high‐density weather stations, the rainstorm and high‐temperature risks of urban, agriculture, and ecological spaces were studied. The results show that (1) rainstorms and high‐temperature are mainly distributed in the built‐up areas of plain towns, which are the climate risk factors that need to be considered. (2) The central city of Beijing is at a high risk of rainstorms and high temperature, indicating that the underlying surface and disaster‐bearing body are highly vulnerable to meteorological disasters. (3) In suburbs with agricultural land, there is a certain rainstorm risk in Fangshan and Daxing districts, and a risk of high temperatures in the southern part of Tongzhou and Daxing. (4) The risk of high temperatures in the ecological space (eco‐zone) is relatively low, but the rainstorm risk is relatively high in Pinggu and Miyun. (5) The strategies of coping with rainstorm and high‐temperature disaster risk in Beijing's territorial space planning were discussed.

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“…Flood or inundation is one of the natural disasters that occur in almost all major cities in Indonesia during the rainy season. This is caused by several factors including high rainfall, impermeable land covering which causes rainwater run off cannot infiltrate into the soil, lack of public awareness of the environment include flood risk awareness (Franceschinis et al, 2021), lack of drainage system especially in densely populated areas, and lack of law enforcement of city spatial planning (Esmaiel et al, 2022) causes a narrower river section. The narrowing channel can increase the water level (Kiss et al, 2021).…”

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Appropriate flood control technology in a local trading area: Case study at Pulosari Kiosk Area in Malang City

Sedyowati

Mudjito

Wibisono

et al. 2022

JPUM

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To date, flood is a problem that often plagues the city of Malang. Floods that occur are mainly caused by poor drainage channels and silting of drainage channels due to people's habits of throwing garbage in rivers. In the Pulosari Kiosk Area of Malang city, the flood was worsened by the capacity of the Pulosari Channel which narrowed due to illegal building. In heavy rain, so much water overflowed into the Pulosari Road, resulting in losses to traders in the area. The purpose of this study was to find a solution to reduce flooding in the Pulosari Channel with the appropriate flood control technology in the area. This study used interviews and questionnaires to investigate the community's response to flood control development efforts. Data analysis was carried out using statistical analysis to obtain a description of the community response to a flood control system implemented by the city government. The research results show that constructing flood diversion channels in the upper area, and educating the community about flood risk management is the best solution in this area to minimize flood losses.

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Integration of flood risk assessment and spatial planning for disaster management in Egypt

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Rainstorm and high‐temperature disaster risk assessment of territorial space in Beijing, China

Appropriate flood control technology in a local trading area: Case study at Pulosari Kiosk Area in Malang City

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