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Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 12668

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Dr. Lu Zhuo

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School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
Interests: infrastructure systems; remote sensing; socioeconcomic
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Prof. Dr. Dawei Han

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Civil Engineering department, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Interests: hydroinformatics; flood risk assessment and management; natural hazards; remote sensing; water resources
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Disasters caused by natural hazards can often lead to significant and long-lasting disruptions of the whole socioeconomic system. On the other hand, the lack of sustainable development can further increase disaster risks and impacts. Therefore, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development are closely related, yet the disciplinary boundary prevails and there are limited cooperations between disaster risk management, environment, and development communities. One catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, or flood, can destroy multi-infrastructure systems and lead to cascading failures and substantial socioeconomic damages and set back development. Similarly, slow-onset disasters such as these associated with global climate changes can also pose serious threats to people’s lives and livelihoods, infrastructure, socioeconomy, and long-term sustainable development.

This Special Issue aims to bring together reviews and original research articles that aim to bridge the gaps between environmental, sustainable development, and disaster risk management research, in particular, to provide solutions to reduce the risks from natural disasters and develop sustainabilities at the local, national, regional, and global levels.

For this Special Issue, we aim at soliciting contributions on sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in the following key areas: natural hazards, infrastructure, and climate change.

We especially welcome and encourage researchers from developing countries, women, and underrepresented minorities to contribute to this Special Issue.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Dr. Lu Zhuo
Prof. Dr. Dawei Han
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Keywords

  • disaster risk management
  • sustainable development
  • climate change
  • natural hazards
  • infrastructure

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Developing Flood Vulnerability Functions through Questionnaire Survey for Flood Risk Assessments in the Meghna Basin, Bangladesh
by Islam M. Khairul, Mohamed Rasmy, Miho Ohara and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Water 2022, 14(3), 369; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030369 - 26 Jan 2022
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Flood vulnerability is estimated by Flood Damage Functions (FDFs), which are crucial for integrated flood risk assessment for developing sustainable flood management, mitigation, and adaptation strategies under global change. However, the FDFs, either empirical or synthetic, are not available in Bangladesh. Therefore, this [...] Read more.
Flood vulnerability is estimated by Flood Damage Functions (FDFs), which are crucial for integrated flood risk assessment for developing sustainable flood management, mitigation, and adaptation strategies under global change. However, the FDFs, either empirical or synthetic, are not available in Bangladesh. Therefore, this paper focused on developing the synthetic type of FDFs for agriculture and rural households through the data of a well–structured questionnaire survey conducted in two pilot sub–districts of northeastern Bangladesh in the Meghna River basin. Multiple regression analyses were performed on the collected data, and the best performing models were selected to establish FDFs. The FDF for agriculture (~196 samples) was developed concerning damage to Boro rice, whereas the FDFs for households (~165 samples) were developed concerning damage to the buildings and household property of three house types (Mud, Brick, and Concrete), separately. The results revealed that there were no yield losses when the water levels were lower than 25 cm (~rice tiller height), and the yield losses were ~100% when the water levels were 70–75 cm deep (~rice grain height). Mud houses and their household property were found the most flood–vulnerable and likely to experience total damage when the water levels exceeded 150 cm above the plinth level, whereas the damage to Brick and Concrete houses and their household property was found likely to remain partial even when the water levels exceeded 150 cm above the plinth level. The developed FDFs can be used to assess potential flood risk in the study area for sustainable and effective management of flood disasters and build back better under global change in the future. Full article
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Flood Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Households’ Flood Disaster Preparedness: The Case of Accra Metropolis in Ghana
by Qi Yin, Gideon Ntim-Amo, Ruiping Ran, Dingde Xu, Stephen Ansah, Jinfu Hu and Hong Tang
Water 2021, 13(17), 2328; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13172328 - 25 Aug 2021
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Flood disaster has gained global attention due to the huge impact it has on human lives, economies, and sustainable environments. Flood disaster preparedness, which can significantly be influenced by disaster risk perception, has been highlighted as an effective way to manage flood disaster [...] Read more.
Flood disaster has gained global attention due to the huge impact it has on human lives, economies, and sustainable environments. Flood disaster preparedness, which can significantly be influenced by disaster risk perception, has been highlighted as an effective way to manage flood disaster risk, as many other means have proved futile, yet no study has attempted using multiple dimensions to analyze this relationship in Ghana. Therefore, this study, using a survey of 369 households in the most flood-prone region, Accra Metropolis, analyzed the influence of flood disaster risk perception on urban households’ flood disaster preparedness. Based on the Protective Action Decision Model, the empirical models were constructed and estimated using the Tobit and binary logistic regression models. The results show that the majority of households (60.16%) were unprepared for flood disasters, and the perception of flood disaster risk and the sustainability risk posed by floods significantly affect flood disaster preparedness behaviours of households in a positive direction. The total number of flood disaster preparedness behaviours adopted was significantly related to probability, the threat to lives, sense of worry, and sustainability risk perceptions. Finally, income, education, and house ownership, among other household and individual characteristics, had significant positive effects on preparations for flood disasters. These findings suggest that effective policies to mitigate flood disasters must incorporate risk communication to boost households’ flood disaster preparedness. Full article
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