Abstract
In terms of potential loss of life and assets, flood is one of the most serious hazards considered in civil engineering. Several recent floods, as in New Orleans in 2005 or Bangladesh in 2008, have illustrated the vulnerability of a population to the risk of flood. This is the case for societies of low as well as high development. In this chapter we consider the global problem of flood in port cities, particularly with respect to exposure of life and assets. Preliminary measures of exposure and risk are determined for 21 highly exposed large urban coastal areas, based on the ranking study by Nicholls et al. (2007). We identify eight of these urban areas to be most highly at risk. In the next chapter we consider the related problem of optimum design of flood protection.
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Nicholls R, Hanson S, Herweijer C et al (2007) Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: Exposure estimates. OECD Environment Working Paper 1, ENV/WKP (2007) 1, Paris
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(2009). Port Cities with High Exposure to Flood. In: Engineering Decisions for Life Quality. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-602-1_6
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