A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean)

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Defense date2018-01
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European Commission's projectRISC-KIT - Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts (EC-FP7-603458)
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 methodology 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.
CitationBallesteros, C., Jimenez, J.A., Viavattene, C. A multi-component flood risk assessment in the Maresme coast (NW Mediterranean). "Natural hazards", Gener 2018, vol. 90, núm. 1, p. 265-292.
ISSN0921-030X
Publisher versionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11069-017-3042-9
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