An Interaction between flood and economy of Yangjae River in socio-hydrology perspective

Over several years, flood management was concentrated on a physical solution such as building flood control structures like levees or dikes. However, with the increasing term of  “socio-hydrology” within the scientific community, the importance of analyzing the feedback between socio and hydrological systems is drawing attention for effective flood management. Many studies(Di Baldassarre, G et al., 2013; Green, C et al., 2011) have warned about the levee effect, which means increasing vulnerability due to non-occurrence of frequent flooding as a result of flood control structure system. Research to understand such interactions from a sociohydrology perspective is mostly conceptual and limited to qualitative analysis. In this study, we quantitively evaluate the dynamic behavior of a system composed of flood-economy-infrastructure. Sociohydrology model based on the differential equation for dynamic analysis system was used to interpret the Yangjae river flood plain numerically. The results confirmed that excessively built flood control structure systems increased flood risk and hindered economic growth.