Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Lihong Wang, Shenghui Cui, Jianxiong Tang, Lei Fang, Xuejuan Fang, Sabita Shrestha, Bikram Manandhar, Jinliang Huang, Vilas Nitivattananon
Summary: Climate change and rapid urbanization have increased the occurrence and impact of floods. This article presents a combined riverine flood risk model that can assess the flood risk and evaluate the flood damage. The results show that the total inundation areas increase significantly at longer flood return periods and the flood risk is higher in the lower reaches of the Jiulong River Basin. The model provides useful information for future flood risk management.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kiyong Park, Sang-Hyun Choi, Insang Yu
Summary: This study aims to minimize flood damage in urban areas by analyzing and ranking the flood risk effect on buildings. Vulnerability analysis and exposure analysis were conducted to evaluate the flood risk of each building type in five regions of Ulsan City.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Anna Rita Scorzini, Mario Di Bacco, Giorgio Manella
Summary: This study discusses the application potential and challenges of a crop damage model in a central region of Italy, as well as the process of adapting the model to the local characteristics. It examines the implications of modelling assumptions on damage and risk results, and emphasizes the importance of verifying similarity when transferring models.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Marine
Tyler Donahue, Peter Krekorian, Luke Swift, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Chris Baxter, Craig Swanson
Summary: The usage of STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) is extended to assess the impact of flooding to wastewater treatment facilities, and the analysis shows that the damage to the facilities increases with sea level rise.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Gina Tonn, Jeffrey Czajkowski
Summary: Despite the high flood losses caused by tropical cyclones, the United States is still insufficiently prepared for such events, with a lack of residential flood insurance being a major issue. By analyzing residential flood claim data from 2001 to 2014, this study reveals that freshwater flooding, rather than storm surge flooding, is the main driver of claims and damages. These findings highlight the need to address both freshwater and storm surge flood risk and to adjust flood insurance premiums based on individual circumstances.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Pablo Merchan-Rivera, Alexandra Geist, Markus Disse, Jingshui Huang, Gabriele Chiogna
Summary: Groundwater flooding can cause significant damages and costs. Existing mapping products lack probabilistic assessment and recognition of parametric uncertainty. Therefore, this study proposes a Bayesian-based framework to create probabilistic risk maps for groundwater flood events.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tommaso Lazzarin, Albert S. Chen, Daniele P. Viero
Summary: The effective communication of flood hazard and risk is crucial in reducing the detrimental impacts of flooding events. Traditional flood maps are often difficult to understand, leading to the use of color maps for better communication. However, these hazard indexes have inherent limitations. Therefore, the use of a physics-based and data-consistent risk index, such as the loss probability (LP) map, is proposed for a more accurate estimation and communication of flood risk.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Baowei Yan, Ran Mu, Jing Guo, Yu Liu, Junlong Tang, Hao Wang
Summary: This study considers the impact of climate change on reservoir flood risks and establishes a new ARIMA stochastic model to simulate possible future floods. Using the Yangfanggou Reservoir in the Yalong River basin as a case study, the flood risks under different future climate scenarios were evaluated. The results indicate an increasing trend in future flood risks.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Max Steinhausen, Dominik Paprotny, Francesco Dottori, Nivedita Sairam, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Lorenzo Alfieri, Stefan Luedtke, Heidi Kreibich, Kai Schroeter
Summary: Flooding is the most costly natural hazard in Europe, and the current climate and socioeconomic changes are expected to further increase future losses. The study reveals that urban centers and their surrounding regions are the hotspots of flood risk in Europe, with flooding risks projected to rise in the British Isles and Central Europe throughout the 21st century.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Elham Jokar, Ali Arman, Arash Azari
Summary: This study focuses on predicting and analyzing flood risk zones under different probabilities, while investigating the impact of uncertainty on river flood zones. Through sampling and simulation, it was found that higher uncertainty in inflow discharges leads to greater changes in flood and flood zones.
Article
Environmental Sciences
C. M. Cooper, S. Sharma, R. E. Nicholas, K. Keller
Summary: This article discusses the need for information design in managing flood risks and emphasizes the importance of uncertainty characterization, model diagnostics, and evaluating how decision-makers use information.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Wei Ding, Jidong Wu, Rumei Tang, Xiaojuan Chen, Yingjun Xu
Summary: China, one of the countries severely affected by floods, has implemented effective measures to reduce flood risk, but still faces challenges from climate change and urbanization. Further improvements in flood risk management system are needed in China to address these challenges.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Daniel Felsenstein, Eilat Elbaum, Tsafrir Levi, Ran Calvo
Summary: This paper explores how post-processing of aggregate HAZUS earthquake damage assessments can provide building-level damage probabilities. By presenting three scenarios for Northern Israel, a building-level combined damage probability index is generated and visualized. The study discusses the tools of exploratory spatial data analysis used to eliminate causal influences, and considers the costs and benefits of the approach.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Steven D. Shultz
Summary: Comparing FEMA-Hazus general building stock data with Harris County assessor data revealed significant discrepancies in replacement and depreciated costs, while both datasets showed similar house size estimates. Inaccuracies at the census block level were highly irregular with no discernable error patterns, indicating the challenges of using simple correction measures for HGBS data. The discrepancies in Houston-based HGBS-assessor inaccuracies compared to other regions further highlight the complexities of correcting HGBS data.
NATURAL HAZARDS REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rubayet Bin Mostafiz, Carol J. Friedland, Md Asif Rahman, Robert Rohli, Eric Tate, Nazla Bushra, Arash Taghinezhad
Summary: This study compares the flood loss estimation outcomes from different models at a neighborhood scale by analyzing building and content loss estimates in a levee-protected census block in Metairie, Louisiana. The use of best available data enhances the accuracy of flood loss estimation, and results from different models may diverge at the individual building level.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Eric Tate, Aaron Strong, Travis Kraus, Haoyi Xiong
Article
Environmental Sciences
Margaret Carrel, Sean G. Young, Eric Tate
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Cristina E. Munoz, Eric Tate
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2016)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Eric Tate, Valerie Decker, Craig Just
Summary: Interdisciplinary research is crucial in flood resilience studies, emphasizing team collaboration and systematic integration of disciplinary knowledge. Collaborative processes are deemed more important than scholarly outcomes for knowledge integration. Assessing team readiness and changes in proximity components are essential in enhancing knowledge integration potential.
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Eric Tate
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Federico Antolini, Eric Tate, Brent Dalzell, Nathan Young, Kris Johnson, Peter L. Hawthorne
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
(2020)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Seth E. Spielman, Joseph Tuccillo, David C. Folch, Amy Schweikert, Rebecca Davies, Nathan Wood, Eric Tate
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Eric Tate, Md Asif Rahman, Christopher T. Emrich, Christopher C. Sampson
Summary: This study explores the geography of flood exposure and social vulnerability in the conterminous United States, identifying hotspots where high flood exposure and high social vulnerability converge. The results show that these hotspots are predominantly located in rural areas and across the US South, with a population of approximately 19 million. Interventions in these hotspots can mitigate both physical and social aspects of flood vulnerability.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Oronde Drakes, Eric Tate, Jayton Rainey, Samuel Brody
Summary: This study examines the relationship between short-term disaster assistance and social vulnerability in the contiguous US, finding that areas with high levels of both assistance and social vulnerability are clustered in the southeastern United States. The research suggests that social vulnerability should be considered in the allocation of assistance to improve social equity in short-term assistance programs. Damage amount is a major determinant of assistance for homeowners, while indicators of race may influence assistance levels in certain areas.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Oronde Drakes, Eric Tate
Summary: The interacting effects of multiple hazards pose a substantial challenge to poverty reduction and national development, while social vulnerability to multiple hazards is a relatively understudied but growing concern. This systematic review reveals the importance of assessing social vulnerability in the context of different types of multi-hazard environments.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Federico Antolini, Eric Tate
Summary: Distributed attenuation in flood management utilizes small and low-impact features distributed within a catchment, such as reservoir systems, natural flood management, and green infrastructure. The effectiveness of these features in reducing and slowing runoff at strategic points within the catchment is crucial in desynchronizing flows. The spatial distribution of these features plays a key role in impacting flood magnitudes at the catchment scale.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Margaret Carrel, Gosia S. Clore, Seungwon Kim, Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, Eric Tate, Eli N. Perencevich, Michihiko Goto
Summary: This study found that Hurricane Harvey may lead to a decrease in healthcare utilization, with effects varying by flood status, race, and income levels. The most affected patients also experienced the greatest delays or non-receipt of care.
Review
Water Resources
Bradley Wilson, Eric Tate, Christopher T. Emrich
Summary: This article synthesizes empirical knowledge of population disparities in access to flood disaster assistance and recovery outcomes, identifying renters, low-income households, and racial and ethnic minorities as populations facing the most barriers. The analysis explores the drivers of these inequities and concludes with a focus on the performance of disaster programs in addressing unmet needs, recognizing intersectional social vulnerabilities in recovery analysis, and gaps in data availability and transparency.
FRONTIERS IN WATER
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Christopher T. Emrich, Eric Tate, Sarah E. Larson, Yao Zhou
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2020)
Article
Geography
Samuel Rufat, Eric Tate, Christopher T. Emrich, Federico Antolini
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS
(2019)
