Reflection on Urban Resilience Based on Multi-prospecting Flood Risk Analysis—— Take Xiamen as an example

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10.2991/rac-18.2018.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

disaster prevention engineering,resilience,flood disaster, multiple scenarios risk assessment, Xiamen

Abstract

Improvement of engineering facilities once cannot protect a city against natural disasters forever. The concept of resilience provides a new idea to increase urban safety. Taking Xiamen as an example, this study sets up three scenarios, which are common conditions, general disasters, and extreme disasters according to different rainfall levels, evaluate the flood risk with a comprehensive indicator system construction method, and explores the deficiencies in urban safety construction through horizontal comparisons. Research findings show that Xiamen is able to cope with conventional flooding disasters in a rational way, but it is still at high risks in the face of extreme weather situations. Conventional idea of engineering disaster prevention fails to improve and sustain the city's ability to respond to disasters, which requires a transformation to conceptualize disaster prevention in the way of urban resilience. Finally, it summarizes the enlightenment of the concept of resilience on urban storm water management.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tianhao Wu
AU  - Wei Huang
AU  - Guofang Zhai
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Reflection on Urban Resilience Based on Multi-prospecting Flood Risk Analysis—— Take Xiamen as an example
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention (RAC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 211
EP  - 217
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rac-18.2018.33
DO  - 10.2991/rac-18.2018.33
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