Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening

This paper presents the advantages and opportunities for rapid preliminary intervention screening to enhance inclusion of green infrastructures in regional scale stormwater management. Stormwater flooding is widely recognised as a significant and worsening natural hazard across the globe; however, c...

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Main Authors: Webber, James L., Balbi, Mariano, Lallemant, David, Gibson, Michael J., Fu, Guangtao, Butler, David, Hamel, Perrine
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1538392022-01-01T20:11:10Z Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening Webber, James L. Balbi, Mariano Lallemant, David Gibson, Michael J. Fu, Guangtao Butler, David Hamel, Perrine Asian School of the Environment Earth Observatory of Singapore Science::Geology Flood Modelling Green Infrastructure This paper presents the advantages and opportunities for rapid preliminary intervention screening to enhance inclusion of green infrastructures in regional scale stormwater management. Stormwater flooding is widely recognised as a significant and worsening natural hazard across the globe; however, current management approaches aimed at the site scale do not adequately explore opportunities for integrated management at the regional scale at which decisions are made. This research addresses this gap through supporting the development of stormwater management strategies, including green infrastructure, at a regional scale. This is achieved through upscaling a modelling approach using a spatially explicit inundation model (CADDIES) coupled with an economic model of inundation loss (OpenProFIA) to support widescale evaluation of green infrastructure during the informative early-stage development of stormwater management strategies. This novel regional scale approach is demonstrated across a case study of the San Francisco Bay Area, spanning 8300 sq km. The main opportunity from this regional approach is to identify spatial and temporal trends which are used to inform regional planning and direct future detailed modelling efforts. The study highlights several limitations of the new method, suggesting it should be applied as part of a suite of landscape management approaches; however, highlights that it has the potential to complement existing stormwater management toolkits. Nanyang Technological University National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research was supported by the Natural Capital Project, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ‘Building Resilience Into risk Management’ (BRIM) network (EP/N010329/1) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council ‘South West Partnership for Environment and Economic Prosperity’ (SWEEP) (NE/P011217/1). Perrine Hamel and James Webber were partially funded by a grant from the Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation. Perrine Hamel and David Lallemant were funded by Nanyang Technological University and National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under awards NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009 and NRF-NRFF2018-06. Mariano Balbi was funded by a Peruilh Scholarship from the Engineering School at Universidad de Buenos Aires. 2021-12-30T07:08:43Z 2021-12-30T07:08:43Z 2021 Journal Article Webber, J. L., Balbi, M., Lallemant, D., Gibson, M. J., Fu, G., Butler, D. & Hamel, P. (2021). Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening. Water, 13(15), 2027-. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13152027 2073-4441 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153839 10.3390/w13152027 2-s2.0-85111640015 15 13 2027 en NRF-NRFF12-2020-0009 NRF-NRFF2018-06 Water © 2021 The Author(s). Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). application/pdf
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topic Science::Geology
Flood Modelling
Green Infrastructure
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Flood Modelling
Green Infrastructure
Webber, James L.
Balbi, Mariano
Lallemant, David
Gibson, Michael J.
Fu, Guangtao
Butler, David
Hamel, Perrine
Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
description This paper presents the advantages and opportunities for rapid preliminary intervention screening to enhance inclusion of green infrastructures in regional scale stormwater management. Stormwater flooding is widely recognised as a significant and worsening natural hazard across the globe; however, current management approaches aimed at the site scale do not adequately explore opportunities for integrated management at the regional scale at which decisions are made. This research addresses this gap through supporting the development of stormwater management strategies, including green infrastructure, at a regional scale. This is achieved through upscaling a modelling approach using a spatially explicit inundation model (CADDIES) coupled with an economic model of inundation loss (OpenProFIA) to support widescale evaluation of green infrastructure during the informative early-stage development of stormwater management strategies. This novel regional scale approach is demonstrated across a case study of the San Francisco Bay Area, spanning 8300 sq km. The main opportunity from this regional approach is to identify spatial and temporal trends which are used to inform regional planning and direct future detailed modelling efforts. The study highlights several limitations of the new method, suggesting it should be applied as part of a suite of landscape management approaches; however, highlights that it has the potential to complement existing stormwater management toolkits.
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Webber, James L.
Balbi, Mariano
Lallemant, David
Gibson, Michael J.
Fu, Guangtao
Butler, David
Hamel, Perrine
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author Webber, James L.
Balbi, Mariano
Lallemant, David
Gibson, Michael J.
Fu, Guangtao
Butler, David
Hamel, Perrine
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title Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
title_short Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
title_full Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
title_fullStr Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
title_full_unstemmed Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
title_sort towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening
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