Overview
- Presents a new step-by-step methodology
- Easy to understand reading for general public and authorities
- Latinamerican readers in flood risk do not have access to this kind of book
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences (BRIEFSEARTH)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Hazard Risk management
- Physical vulnerability
- Social vulnerability
- Urban Hydrographic Basin
- Mapping of hazard levels
- Urban tributaries
- Urban watershed
- Urban affluents
- Identification of flood polygons
- Flood risk assessment
- Urban Hydrographic Basin
- Flood management in Latin America
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
This work will enable readers to elaborate a preventive program in Latin America and analogous regions. The authorities could use it as a basis to create urban planning strategies or preventive programs to reduce or eliminate the flooding hazard.
The growth of an urban area implies that the natural terrain is covered by an asphalt folder, which results in an Urban Hydrographic Basin where rainwater drains down its streets filtering through sewers towards rainwater drains or wastewater. Initially, the drainages are calculated according to the population in a specific urban area, however, the population growth causes the growth of the urban area, where the old drainages and new roads are linked, causing their saturation and chaos. More water runs down the streets and is accumulated in the lower areas, causing flooding.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping the Risk of Flood, Mass Movement and Local Subsidence
Book Subtitle: A New Proposal for Major Cities
Authors: Juan Carlos Mora Chaparro
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22472-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22471-4Published: 25 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22472-1Published: 12 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2191-5369
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5377
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 58
Topics: Natural Hazards, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning