Urban Pluvial Flooding Managing the Risk in Resilient Cities

Intended to provide Researchers, Structural Engineers, Civil Engineers and Architects with a holistic approach to prevent or mitigate damage due to this type of flooding, Urban Pluvial flooding: Understanding and Managing covers all the main scientific and technical aspects of pluvial flooding in urban areas including drivers, impacts, and related risks. The book presents wide coverage of all aspects of pluvial flooding in urban areas. Prevention tools and methods such as Urban growth modelling, Hydrological modelling, and Hydraulic modelling methods are explained in clear terms to help facilitate understanding of how to utilize these tools and effectively analyze the results and form effective management plans. In addition, Urban Pluvial Flooding: Understanding and Managing provides several case studies to illustrate how these tools and methods were deployed in the face of actual crisis.

• An interdisciplinary approach for assessing and mitigating flood risk incorporating engineering, natural sciences and social sciences.
• Provides a review of the inputs and components of urban pluvial flood modelling methods
• Provides a holistic systematic analysis of disaster risk reduction due to pluvial flooding events
• Includes examples and results from real case studies from throughout the world

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineers

Prof. Giuseppe T. Aronica is Associate Professor of River Basin Management at the Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Italy with over 20 year of experience in flood, flash flood and urban flood risk management.
Dr. Natasa Manojlovic is a senior researcher at the Hamburg University of Technology with over 15 years of experience in the filed of urban flood risk management and resilience. Her major research interests include (urban) flood risk assessment and modelling, flood resilient concepts and strategies including nature-based solutions, hard/grey infrstructure and their combinations (hybrid solutions).
Dr. Michael Hammond is an international consultant specialized in flood risk management and climate change adaptation. He is currently working for organizations such as the World Bank and World Health Organization.
Dr Albert Chen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, with over 15 years of experience in urban flood management. His research interests include urban drainage, hydrology and hydraulic modelling, computational fluid dynamic, flood forecasting and early warning, flood damage assessment, risk management, hazard mitigation, and resilience strategies.