Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102355
Keywords
Urban flood resilience; Flood mitigation; VIKOR; Grey relational analysis; Yangtze river delta region
Funding
- National Social Science Foundation of China [19BGL281]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFD1100202]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2242021k30023]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
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This paper proposes a holistic evaluation framework for urban flood resilience using VIKOR and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method. The framework consists of indicators for resistance, coping, recovery, and adaptation capacity for three stages of the flood disaster cycle. The analysis of 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) reveals varying levels of urban flood resilience, with Nanjing standing out as the most resilient city. Recommendations are provided for further flood mitigation and resilience improvement.
Rapid urbanization and climate change have increased the risk of urban flooding, causing massive infrastructure and human losses. The concept of resilience proposes new solutions to manage flood disaster. An urban flood resilience evaluation framework considering the flood disaster cycle of actual historic flood event and objective physical-socio-economic status is necessary for future flood mitigation. This paper proposes a holistic evaluation framework for evaluating urban flood resilience with VIKOR and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method. The proposed framework consists of indicators of resistance, coping, recovery and adaptation capacity of resilience for three stages of the flood disaster cycle, namely pre, during and post-flood. The framework has been applied to Yangtze River Delta (YRD) consisting 27 cities in China. Following a rigorous analysis, the cities are ranked and mapped, among which Nanjing stands out to be the first, whereas the entire region presents a moderate level of urban flood resilience varying from city to city. The detailed comparison with sensitivity analysis of resilience at regional, provincial and city level suggests a better resilience in pre-flood stage than post-flood stage. Finally, practical recommendations to regional and local level are provided for further flood mitigation and resilience improvement. The proposed framework is generalizable and useful to develop flood related standards, establish benchmarks, perform evaluation at regional, provincial and city levels across China and other parts of the world.
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