scholarly journals Can Citizen Science Promote Flood Risk Communication?

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing Cheung ◽  
David Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Limited Application

This article explores the challenges facing citizen science as a means of joining the efforts of scientists and flood-risk affected stakeholders in motivating citizen involvement in identifying and mitigating flood risks. While citizen science harbors many advantages, including a penchant for collaborative research and the ability to motivate those affected by floods to work with scientists in elucidating and averting risk, it is not without challenges in its implementation. These include ensuring that scientists are willing to share authority with amateur citizen scientists, providing forums that encourage debate, and encouraging equal voice in developing flood risk mitigation strategies. We assess these challenges by noting the limited application of citizen science to flood-relevant problems in existing research and recommend future research in this area to meaningfully incorporate a “re-imagined” citizen science process that is based on the participatory theoretical framework. We also discuss one case study where the principles of collaboration, debate, and equal voice were put into play in an effort to apply citizen science and—in the long term—mitigate flood hazards in one set of communities.

Induced-seismicity risk-mitigation strategies: Montney case study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emrah Yenier ◽  
Dario Baturan ◽  
Brad Bialowas ◽  
Bogdan Batlai ◽  
John Nieto
Keyword(s):  
Induced Seismicity ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies

scholarly journals Long-Term Improvement in Precautions for Flood Risk Mitigation: A Case Study in the Low-Lying Area of Central Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Dinh Nguyen ◽  
Fumikazu Ubukata ◽  
Quang Tan Nguyen ◽  
Hoang Ha Vo
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Space Function ◽  
Major Floods ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

AbstractLocal actors appear as inseparable components of the integrated flood risk mitigation strategy in Vietnam. Recognizing this fact, this study examined the long-term improvement in precautions taken by commune authorities and households between two major floods in 1999 and 2017 by applying both quantitative and qualitative methods. Two flood-prone villages were selected for a survey; one in a rural area and the other in a suburban area of Thua Thien Hue Province, central Vietnam. The findings indicate that most villagers doubted the structural works’ efficacy and were dissatisfied with the current efforts of local authorities. Households’ self-preparation thus became the decisive factor in mitigating risk. While most households have paid greater attention to flood precautions in 2017, others seem to be lagging. Poverty-related barriers were the root causes restraining households in both rural and suburban villages. The suburban riverine residents were further identified as vulnerable by their limitations in upgrading structural measures, which was ascribed to the inconsistency in the ancient town’s preservation policy. This multidimensional comparison, in terms of vulnerability, emphasized the importance of space-function links in the suburb and the contradictions of different policy initiatives, such as landscape rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and livelihood maintenance.

scholarly journals Biofuel supply chain risk mitigation strategy framework: Expert interview based Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Tedy Wachyudi ◽  
Arief Daryanto ◽  
Machfud Machfud ◽  
Yandra Arkeman
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Expert Interview ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to develop and framework supply chain characteristics and risk mitigation strategies in the context of biodiesel downstream supply chain.Design/methodology/approach: This study employs an expert interview-based approach as a qualitative approach with a multi-perspectives view.Findings: There are vary strategies among perspectives, such as perspectives of organization and business types, stakeholder types, times and methods. These also shows that business strategy of collaborative, coordinative, and cooperative arise as alternative strategies for each perspective and each level of stakeholder. Those business strategies may apply in a vary operation strategies which linking through an energy security framework element as company’s competitive priorities.Research limitations/implications: The research scope includes only a certain area of the country’s territory and the target company’s supply chain areas of activity. The research method includes only internal stakeholders and experts as respondents and data sources. The level of analysis was only at corporate level in the corporate case study context. The research also targets only a downstream activities of biodiesel supply chain context. The interview-based approach as a qualitative approach faces some subjectivity challenges among respondents.Practical implications: The research result provides some positive implications for business practice, includes how to minimize the impact of supply chain risk on company’s business activities and performance, how supply chain experts and practitioners used risk mitigation practices, how to formulate strategic plans to minimize the impact of supply chain risk and enhance the effectivity and sustainability of the supply chain activities.Social implications: The implication for business practice was that company’s leaders implemented supply chain risk mitigation strategies that provide positive impacts on the more valuable relationship among supply chain actors and stakeholders.Originality/value: The first, is an activities areas and operation schemes-based of biodiesel supply chain point of view. The second, is a multi-perspectives-based biodiesel supply chain characteristics framework. The third, is an energy security framework-based biodiesel risk mitigation strategies framework.

scholarly journals FINANCING AND RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN GREEN FIELD PROJECTS UNDER PUBLIC, PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) MODEL: A CASE STUDY OF RAJIV GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (RGIA) LTD, HYDERABAD.

2009 ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Sarbesh Mishra ◽  
Malay Kumar Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Operational Phase ◽  
Timely Delivery

PPP projects have brought a big change in Indian Infrastructure Industry. There was not only a dramatic turnaround in the time taken for completion of projects but also a big change in quality of the projects. This change was because of involvement of a private player in the project. Though projects in the range of 500 crores, 1000 crores or even more than that was earlier handled by government departments but they always lacked with timely delivery and quality of projects. This was because of lack of planning and even because of lack of modern day tracking of projects. Now this gap was merged with the entry of a private player. There are glaring examples that this model has been a big success, be it RGIA of Hyderabad or modernization of Delhi and Mumbai airports, each of these projects has been a big success. It’s not only airport projects that has become successful even there are a lot of projects in road sector, port sector which have been completed in this model. The major issue with big infrastructure projects has been financing of these projects. Since in a PPP model private player also takes up the responsibility of financing the project with adequate support from government overall funding of the project becomes easier. But the problem does not seem to end over here because the private player which takes the responsibility of financing the project during initial stage also bears the risk of revenue generation which might be a big concern during operational phase. If the actual revenue falls short of projected revenue than the ROI will have a severe impact. In order to counteract these problems associated with various PPP models several risk mitigation strategies are adopted to safeguard both the parties in a better way. Though India has taken a huge step forward by awarding several projects in this PPP model still there is a long way to go in terms understanding the pros and cons of PPP model and how well it can be adopted in Indian scenario.

scholarly journals Assessing tropical cyclone compound flood risk using hydrodynamic modelling: a case study in Haikou City, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Liu ◽  
Hanqing Xu ◽  
Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Copula Function ◽  
Coastal Flooding ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Storm Tide ◽  
Inundation Area ◽  
Joint Occurrence

Abstract. The co-occurrence of storm tide and rainstorm during tropical cyclones (TCs) can lead to compound flooding in low-lying coastal regions. The assessment of TC compound flood risk can provide vital insight for research on coastal flooding prevention. This study investigates TC compound flooding by constructing a storm surge model and overland flooding model using Delft3D Flexible Mesh (DFM), illustrating the serious consequences from the perspective of storm tide. Based on the probability distribution of storm tide, this study regards TC1415 as the 100-year event, TC6311 as the 50-year event, TC8616 as the 25-year event, TC8007 as the 10-year event, and TC7109 as the 5-year event. The results indicate that the coastal area is a major floodplain, primarily due to storm tide, with the inundation severity positively correlated with the height of the storm tide. For 100-year TC event, the inundation area with a depth above 1.0 m increases by approximately 2.5 times when compared with 5-year TC event. The comparison of single-driven flood (storm tide flooding and rainstorm inundation) and compound flood hazards shows that simply accumulating every single-driven flood hazard to define the compound flood hazard may cause underestimation. For future research on compound flooding, copula function can be adopted to investigate the joint occurrence of storm tide and rainstorm to reveal the severity of extreme TC flood hazards.

scholarly journals Simplified graphical tools for assessing flood-risk change over large flood-prone areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 370 ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Carisi ◽  
A. Domeneghetti ◽  
A. Castellarin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Hydraulic Behaviour ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies

Abstract. We propose and investigate the reliability of simplified graphical tools, which we term Hypsometric Vulnerability Curves, HVCs, for assessing flood vulnerability and risk over large geographical areas and for defining sustainable flood-risk mitigation strategies. These curves rely on the use of inundation scenarios simulated by means of quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2-D) hydrodynamic models that reproduce the hydraulic behaviour of the floodable area outside the main embankment system of the study river reach. We present an application of HVCs constructed on the basis of land use and census data collected during the last 50 years for assessing the recent dynamics of the flood vulnerability and risk over a large floodable area along a 350 km stretch of the River Po (Northern Italy). We also compared the proposed simplified approach with a traditional approach based on simulations performed with the fully-2-D hydrodynamic model TELEMAC-2-D, a widely employed and well-known 2-D finite-element scheme. By means of this comparison, we characterize the accuracy of the proposed simplified approach (i.e. quasi-2-D model and HVCs) for flood-risk assessment over large geographical areas and different historical land-use scenarios.

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