Assessment of flood risk exposure for the Foshan-Zhongshan region in Guangdong province, China

• Main Authors: Zhang, Qi, Jian, Wei, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man
• 其他作者: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2021
• 主題: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Urban flooding; HEC-HMS
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145904

Floods have caused 20% of the worldwide economic losses resulting from catastrophe events over 2008 to 2018. In China, the annual flood economic losses have exceeded CNY 100 billion from 1990 to 2010, which is equivalent to 1% to 3% of China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This paper presents a rain...