Flash Flood Risk Assessment Based on FFIA in China

Changzhi Li, Dongya Sun, Liang Guo, Hong Wang, Xiaolei Zhang, Miao Zhang

2018

Abstract

Reliable flood risk level information is significant to take appropriate strategies and measures for flash flood management from area to area in China that suffers heavily from flash flood disasters. A nation-wide project, called Flash Flood Investigation and Assessment (FFIA), was performed during the period of 2013-2016 for the purpose of a great improvement in flash flood management. Based on the data from FFIA on hazard, exposure and vulnerability for each watershed in mountainous area, this study performed flash flood risk assessment by steps of risk index system development, risk assessment model construct, risk component computation and flash flood risk analysis; the risk index system is consisted of three layers of general risk layer, component layer and factor layer (mainly from FFIA); and the model for flash flood risk indicates the overlying effect of hazard, exposure and vulnerability. The main conclusions include: 1) the outcomes of flash flood risk assessment agree well with the places where flash flood events occurred, 2) the protected objects at different risk levels are identified on different administrative jurisdiction levels, and 3) areas with high flash flood risk are highlighted as the Qin-Ba Mountains area, the Wuling-Xuefeng Mountains area, the Wuyi Mountains area, the Nanling Mountains, the Sichuan Basin and its surrounding area, the Yun-Gui plateau, the Yanshan-Taihang Moutains, the Loess Plateau, and the Changbai Mountains; and suggestions were presented for flash flood risk management in these areas according to local conditions of climate, geography, population and urbanization.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Li C., Sun D., Guo L., Wang H., Zhang X. and Zhang M. (2018). Flash Flood Risk Assessment Based on FFIA in China.In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience - Volume 1: IWEG, ISBN 978-989-758-342-1, pages 566-575. DOI: 10.5220/0007433705660575

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iweg18,
author={Changzhi Li and Dongya Sun and Liang Guo and Hong Wang and Xiaolei Zhang and Miao Zhang},
title={Flash Flood Risk Assessment Based on FFIA in China},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience - Volume 1: IWEG,},
year={2018},
pages={566-575},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007433705660575},
isbn={978-989-758-342-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience - Volume 1: IWEG,
TI - Flash Flood Risk Assessment Based on FFIA in China
SN - 978-989-758-342-1
AU - Li C.
AU - Sun D.
AU - Guo L.
AU - Wang H.
AU - Zhang X.
AU - Zhang M.
PY - 2018
SP - 566
EP - 575
DO - 10.5220/0007433705660575