A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)
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Ballesteros, C., Jiménez, J. and Viavattene, C. 2018. A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean). Natural Hazards. 90 (1), pp. 265-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-3042-9
Type | Article |
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Title | A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean) |
Authors | Ballesteros, C., Jiménez, J. and Viavattene, C. |
Abstract | Coastal regions are the areas most threatened by natural hazards, with floods being the most frequent and significant threat in terms of their induced impacts, and therefore, any management scheme requires their evaluation. In coastal areas, flooding is a hazard associated with various processes acting at different scales: coastal storms, flash floods, and sea level rise (SLR). In order to address the problem as a whole, this study presents a ethodology to undertake a preliminary integrated risk assessment that determines the magnitude of the different flood processes (flash flood, marine storm, SLR) and their associated consequences, taking into account their temporal and spatial scales. The risk is quantified using specific indicators to assess the magnitude of the hazard (for each component) and the consequences in a common scale. This allows for a robust comparison of the spatial risk distribution along the coast in order to identify both the areas at greatest risk and the risk components that have the greatest impact. This methodology is applied on the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean, Spain), which can be considered representative of developed areas of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The results obtained characterise this coastline as an area of relatively low overall risk, although some hot spots have been identified with high-risk values, with flash flooding being the principal risk process. |
Research Group | Flood Hazard Research Centre |
Publisher | Springer |
Journal | Natural Hazards |
ISSN | 0921-030X |
Electronic | 1573-0840 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 18 Sep 2017 |
31 Jan 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Sep 2017 |
Submitted | 25 Feb 2017 |
Accepted | 04 Sep 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © The Author(s) 2017. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-017-3042-9 |
Language | English |
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