Evaluación del riesgo de inundación a múltiples componentes en la costa del Maresme
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Ballesteros, C., Jiménez, J. and Viavattene, C. 2017. Evaluación del riesgo de inundación a múltiples componentes en la costa del Maresme. Ribagua. 4 (2), pp. 110-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/23863781.2017.1381453
Type | Article |
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Title | Evaluación del riesgo de inundación a múltiples componentes en la costa del Maresme |
Authors | Ballesteros, C., Jiménez, J. and Viavattene, C. |
Abstract | The coast is one of the areas most affected by natural hazards, with floods being the most frequent and significant of these in terms of their induced impacts, so any management scheme requires their evaluation. In coastal areas, flooding is a hazard associated with different processes acting at different scales: coastal storms, flash floods and sea level rise (SLR). To address the problem as a whole, this study presents a methodology to undertake a preliminary integrated risk assessment of the magnitude of each flood component, taking into account their scope (extension of the affected area) and their temporal scale. The risk is quantified using specific indicators to assess the hazard magnitude (for each component) and the consequences. This allows for a robust comparison of the spatial risk distribution along the coast in order to identify both the most at-risk areas and the most influential risk components. This methodology is applied to a stretch of coastline (Maresme, Catalonia) representative of the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The results obtained characterise this coastline as an area with a relatively low overall risk, although some hotspots are identified as having high-risk values. |
Research Group | Flood Hazard Research Centre |
Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
Journal | Ribagua |
ISSN | 2529-8968 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Oct 2017 |
03 Jul 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 11 Dec 2017 |
Accepted | 23 Oct 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/23863781.2017.1381453 |
Language | English |
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