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Coupling Infrastructure Resilience and Flood Risk Assessment for a Coastal Urban Watershed

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2017
Abstract/Description:
This thesis sheds light on coupling potential flood risk and drainage infrastructure resilience of low-lying areas of a coastal urban watershed to flood hazards and subsequent multi-scale impacts of those hazards via detailed modeling frameworks. Physically based models along with statistical models are employed to highlight the complexity for characterizing flood risk while evaluating such risk under various levels of adaptive capacity from traditional flood management techniques to low impact development (LID), as a first step to conduct resilience assessment. Findings indicate that the coupling flood risk and infrastructure resilience is achievable by the careful formulation of flood risk associated with a resilience metric, which is a function of the hazard(s) considered, vulnerability and adaptive capacity. The results also give insights into improving existing methodologies for municipalities in flood management practices such as incorporating multi-criteria flood risk evaluation that includes resilience.
Title: Coupling Infrastructure Resilience and Flood Risk Assessment for a Coastal Urban Watershed.
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Name(s): Joyce, Justin, Author
Chang, Ni-bin, Committee Chair
Mayo, Talea, Committee Member
Wanielista, Martin, Committee Member
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2017
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: This thesis sheds light on coupling potential flood risk and drainage infrastructure resilience of low-lying areas of a coastal urban watershed to flood hazards and subsequent multi-scale impacts of those hazards via detailed modeling frameworks. Physically based models along with statistical models are employed to highlight the complexity for characterizing flood risk while evaluating such risk under various levels of adaptive capacity from traditional flood management techniques to low impact development (LID), as a first step to conduct resilience assessment. Findings indicate that the coupling flood risk and infrastructure resilience is achievable by the careful formulation of flood risk associated with a resilience metric, which is a function of the hazard(s) considered, vulnerability and adaptive capacity. The results also give insights into improving existing methodologies for municipalities in flood management practices such as incorporating multi-criteria flood risk evaluation that includes resilience.
Identifier: CFE0006748 (IID), ucf:51844 (fedora)
Note(s): 2017-08-01
M.S.Env.E.
Engineering and Computer Science, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
Masters
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Subject(s): flood -- flood risk -- flood resilience -- watershed -- risk analysis -- resilience assessment -- coastal
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006748
Restrictions on Access: public 2017-08-15
Host Institution: UCF

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