Chan, Faith, Wang, Zilin, Chen, Jiannan, Lu, Xiaohui, Nafea, Taiseer, Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583, James, Griffiths, Alessandro, Pezzoli, Pengfei, Li and Juanle, Wang (2023) Selected global flood preparation and response lessons: implications for more resilient Chinese cities. Natural Hazards.

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Abstract

Global urban populations are rising, and more extreme climate events occur, which means more people are exposed to flood hazards such as pluvial, fluvial, and coastal or compound floods with all of these types of floods. Cities located in flood-prone areas besides the coasts, rivers, or both are at higher risk because natural and engineered systems have insufficient water storage capacity to offload peak discharge and withstand the surge levels. Whilst the combined drives with non-climatic factors and climatic factors such as urbanisation and social-economic developments, and increasing extreme rainfall patterns, storms, surges, and Global mean-sea level rise are unstoppable. That is doubtful still to rely on improving flood protection to secure resilience. We focused on reviewing the lessons from flood responses globally for the major events in the last decade. More core options such as understanding the importance of responding to flooding events and improving the risk communication between the stakeholders, administration, and the public seem to be the key to minimising the flood impacts on the communities. Under the continuous growth of human exposure, we suggest an urgent call for authorities to enact a better flood response strategy in their flood disaster risk reduction plans and policies. These lessons and implications for improving the resilience of Chinese cities and elsewhere.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GB Physical geography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
School/Department:	School of Humanities
Institutes:	Institute for Social Justice
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/8177

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