Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century
Urban flooding is an increasingly important issue. Disaster statistics appear to show flood events are becoming more frequent, with medium-scale events increasing fastest. The impact of flooding is driven by a combination of natural and human-induc...
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ADAPTATION AEROSOLS AFFECTED COUNTRY AFFECTED PEOPLE AFFECTED POPULATIONS ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ARTIFICIAL DRAINAGE AVALANCHE BASINS CARBON MONOXIDE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CLIMATES COAST COASTAL AREAS COASTAL EROSION COASTAL STORMS COASTS CONSTRUCTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING CONTINGENCY PLANS CONVEYANCE CONVEYANCE SYSTEMS CRED CROPS DAMAGES DAMS DATA SOURCES DEATH RATES DEVASTATION DISASTER DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHTS DRY SPELLS ECOSYSTEMS EFFECT OF SEA LEVEL RISE EFFECTS ON HEALTH EMERGENCY PLANNING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISASTERS EVACUATION EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME RAINFALL EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINE FARMER FIRE FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOOD DAMAGES FLOOD DEFENSES FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD HAZARD FLOOD INSURANCE FLOOD LOSSES FLOOD MANAGEMENT FLOOD MITIGATION FLOOD PLAINS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOOD RISK FLOOD WATERS FLOODING FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT FLOODPLAINS FLOODS FLOODWATER FLOODWATERS FOOD SECURITY FOREST FUTURE ADAPTATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GLOBAL FACILITY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION GLOBAL MEAN PRECIPITATION GROUND WATER GROUNDWATER HEAT HEAT WAVE HEAT WAVES HOT AIR HOUSING HUMAN INTERVENTION HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGY INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANY INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAND COVER LAND DEGRADATION LAND SUBSIDENCE LAND USE LANDSLIDES MEAN SEA LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL DISASTERS METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PRECIPITATION PREDICTABILITY RAINFALL RAINFALL EVENTS RAINFALL RUNOFF RECEIVING WATERS RECONSTRUCTION REGIONAL CHANGES REGIONAL CLIMATE REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS RESERVOIRS RESIDENTIAL AREAS RESTORATION RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION RIVER RIVER DELTAS RIVERINE RUNOFF SAFETY SEA LEVEL RISE SEARCH AND RESCUE SEDIMENTS SLUM SLUMS SPATIAL EXTENT SPATIAL SCALE STAGNANT WATER STORM STORM SEWERS STORM SURGE STORMS STREAM SUMMER HEAT WAVE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL PRECIPITATION TROPICAL STORM TYPHOON URBAN HEAT URBAN HEAT ISLANDS VEGETATION WARNING SYSTEMS WATER HOLDING CAPACITY WATERSHED WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS WATERWAYS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER EXTREMES WETLANDS |
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ADAPTATION AEROSOLS AFFECTED COUNTRY AFFECTED PEOPLE AFFECTED POPULATIONS ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ARTIFICIAL DRAINAGE AVALANCHE BASINS CARBON MONOXIDE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CLIMATES COAST COASTAL AREAS COASTAL EROSION COASTAL STORMS COASTS CONSTRUCTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING CONTINGENCY PLANS CONVEYANCE CONVEYANCE SYSTEMS CRED CROPS DAMAGES DAMS DATA SOURCES DEATH RATES DEVASTATION DISASTER DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHTS DRY SPELLS ECOSYSTEMS EFFECT OF SEA LEVEL RISE EFFECTS ON HEALTH EMERGENCY PLANNING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISASTERS EVACUATION EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME RAINFALL EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINE FARMER FIRE FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOOD DAMAGES FLOOD DEFENSES FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD HAZARD FLOOD INSURANCE FLOOD LOSSES FLOOD MANAGEMENT FLOOD MITIGATION FLOOD PLAINS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOOD RISK FLOOD WATERS FLOODING FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT FLOODPLAINS FLOODS FLOODWATER FLOODWATERS FOOD SECURITY FOREST FUTURE ADAPTATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GLOBAL FACILITY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION GLOBAL MEAN PRECIPITATION GROUND WATER GROUNDWATER HEAT HEAT WAVE HEAT WAVES HOT AIR HOUSING HUMAN INTERVENTION HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGY INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANY INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAND COVER LAND DEGRADATION LAND SUBSIDENCE LAND USE LANDSLIDES MEAN SEA LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL DISASTERS METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PRECIPITATION PREDICTABILITY RAINFALL RAINFALL EVENTS RAINFALL RUNOFF RECEIVING WATERS RECONSTRUCTION REGIONAL CHANGES REGIONAL CLIMATE REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS RESERVOIRS RESIDENTIAL AREAS RESTORATION RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION RIVER RIVER DELTAS RIVERINE RUNOFF SAFETY SEA LEVEL RISE SEARCH AND RESCUE SEDIMENTS SLUM SLUMS SPATIAL EXTENT SPATIAL SCALE STAGNANT WATER STORM STORM SEWERS STORM SURGE STORMS STREAM SUMMER HEAT WAVE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL PRECIPITATION TROPICAL STORM TYPHOON URBAN HEAT URBAN HEAT ISLANDS VEGETATION WARNING SYSTEMS WATER HOLDING CAPACITY WATERSHED WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS WATERWAYS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER EXTREMES WETLANDS Jha, Abhas Lamond, Jessica Bloch, Robin Bhattacharya, Namrata Lopez, Ana Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Bird, Alan Proverbs, David Davies, John Barker, Robert Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5648 |
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Urban flooding is an increasingly
important issue. Disaster statistics appear to show flood
events are becoming more frequent, with medium-scale events
increasing fastest. The impact of flooding is driven by a
combination of natural and human-induced factors. As recent
flood events in Pakistan, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Australia
show, floods can occur in widespread locations and can
sometimes overwhelm even the best prepared countries and
cities. There are known and tested measures for urban flood
risk management, typically classified as structural or
engineered measures, and non-structural, management
techniques. A combination of measures to form an integrated
management approach is most likely to be successful in
reducing flood risk. In the short term and for developing
countries in particular, the factors affecting exposure and
vulnerability are increasing at the fastest rate as
urbanization puts more people and more assets at risk. In
the longer term, however, climate scenarios are likely to be
one of the most important drivers of future changes in flood
risk. Due to the large uncertainties in projections of
climate change, adaptation to the changing risk needs to be
flexible to a wide range of future scenarios and to be able
to cope with potentially large changes in sea level,
rainfall intensity and snowmelt. Climate uncertainty and
budgetary, institutional and practical constraints are
likely to lead to a combining of structural and
non-structural measures for urban flood risk management, and
arguably, to a move away from what is sometimes an
over-reliance on hard-engineered defenses and toward more
adaptable and incremental non-structural solutions. |
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Jha, Abhas Lamond, Jessica Bloch, Robin Bhattacharya, Namrata Lopez, Ana Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Bird, Alan Proverbs, David Davies, John Barker, Robert |
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Jha, Abhas Lamond, Jessica Bloch, Robin Bhattacharya, Namrata Lopez, Ana Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Bird, Alan Proverbs, David Davies, John Barker, Robert |
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Jha, Abhas |
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Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century |
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five feet high and rising : cities and flooding in the 21st century |
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2012 |
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okr-10986-34122021-04-23T14:02:09Z Five Feet High and Rising : Cities and Flooding in the 21st Century Jha, Abhas Lamond, Jessica Bloch, Robin Bhattacharya, Namrata Lopez, Ana Papachristodoulou, Nikolaos Bird, Alan Proverbs, David Davies, John Barker, Robert ADAPTATION AEROSOLS AFFECTED COUNTRY AFFECTED PEOPLE AFFECTED POPULATIONS ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ARTIFICIAL DRAINAGE AVALANCHE BASINS CARBON MONOXIDE CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CLASSIFICATION CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CLIMATES COAST COASTAL AREAS COASTAL EROSION COASTAL STORMS COASTS CONSTRUCTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING CONTINGENCY PLANS CONVEYANCE CONVEYANCE SYSTEMS CRED CROPS DAMAGES DAMS DATA SOURCES DEATH RATES DEVASTATION DISASTER DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISCHARGE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DROUGHTS DRY SPELLS ECOSYSTEMS EFFECT OF SEA LEVEL RISE EFFECTS ON HEALTH EMERGENCY PLANNING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISASTERS EVACUATION EXTREME EVENTS EXTREME PRECIPITATION EXTREME RAINFALL EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS EXTREME WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS FAMINE FARMER FIRE FLOOD FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD DAMAGE FLOOD DAMAGES FLOOD DEFENSES FLOOD EVENTS FLOOD HAZARD FLOOD INSURANCE FLOOD LOSSES FLOOD MANAGEMENT FLOOD MITIGATION FLOOD PLAINS FLOOD PRONE AREAS FLOOD RISK FLOOD WATERS FLOODING FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT FLOODPLAINS FLOODS FLOODWATER FLOODWATERS FOOD SECURITY FOREST FUTURE ADAPTATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GLOBAL FACILITY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION GLOBAL MEAN PRECIPITATION GROUND WATER GROUNDWATER HEAT HEAT WAVE HEAT WAVES HOT AIR HOUSING HUMAN INTERVENTION HURRICANE HURRICANES HYDROLOGY INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANY INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION LAND COVER LAND DEGRADATION LAND SUBSIDENCE LAND USE LANDSLIDES MEAN SEA LEVEL METEOROLOGICAL DISASTERS METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS PRECIPITATION PREDICTABILITY RAINFALL RAINFALL EVENTS RAINFALL RUNOFF RECEIVING WATERS RECONSTRUCTION REGIONAL CHANGES REGIONAL CLIMATE REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS RESERVOIRS RESIDENTIAL AREAS RESTORATION RISK ASSESSMENT RISK REDUCTION RIVER RIVER DELTAS RIVERINE RUNOFF SAFETY SEA LEVEL RISE SEARCH AND RESCUE SEDIMENTS SLUM SLUMS SPATIAL EXTENT SPATIAL SCALE STAGNANT WATER STORM STORM SEWERS STORM SURGE STORMS STREAM SUMMER HEAT WAVE TROPICAL CYCLONE TROPICAL PRECIPITATION TROPICAL STORM TYPHOON URBAN HEAT URBAN HEAT ISLANDS VEGETATION WARNING SYSTEMS WATER HOLDING CAPACITY WATERSHED WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS WATERWAYS WEATHER EVENT WEATHER EXTREMES WETLANDS Urban flooding is an increasingly important issue. Disaster statistics appear to show flood events are becoming more frequent, with medium-scale events increasing fastest. The impact of flooding is driven by a combination of natural and human-induced factors. As recent flood events in Pakistan, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Australia show, floods can occur in widespread locations and can sometimes overwhelm even the best prepared countries and cities. There are known and tested measures for urban flood risk management, typically classified as structural or engineered measures, and non-structural, management techniques. A combination of measures to form an integrated management approach is most likely to be successful in reducing flood risk. In the short term and for developing countries in particular, the factors affecting exposure and vulnerability are increasing at the fastest rate as urbanization puts more people and more assets at risk. In the longer term, however, climate scenarios are likely to be one of the most important drivers of future changes in flood risk. Due to the large uncertainties in projections of climate change, adaptation to the changing risk needs to be flexible to a wide range of future scenarios and to be able to cope with potentially large changes in sea level, rainfall intensity and snowmelt. Climate uncertainty and budgetary, institutional and practical constraints are likely to lead to a combining of structural and non-structural measures for urban flood risk management, and arguably, to a move away from what is sometimes an over-reliance on hard-engineered defenses and toward more adaptable and incremental non-structural solutions. 2012-03-19T18:02:00Z 2012-03-19T18:02:00Z 2011-05-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110503095951 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3412 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5648 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region |