The dynamics of floodplain urbanization and hydraulic engineering development
- 1Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China (peironglinlin@pku.edu.cn)
- 2International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, Beijing, China
- 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA
- 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern University of Science & Technology, Shenzhen, China
- 5Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State University, KS, USA
- 6Department of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Floodplain urbanization is accelerating at an alarming rate in recent decades, which has posed grand challenges to flood risk management. Hydraulic engineering infrastructure is often co-developed alongside this acceleration to mitigate flood risks, but to what extent this co-development matches up with the floodplain urbanization rate needs to be better quantified. In this study, we leverage a range of multi-source geospatial datasets including high-resolution floodplain maps, urban impervious area maps, global dam/reservoir datasets, and flood fatality data from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) to assess the dynamics of floodplain urbanization (1985–2015) and its interplay with hydraulic engineering development at the global scale. We will report our assessments at both the basin level and the country level to promote the understanding of the hydroclimatic and socioeconomic contexts of floodplain urbanization. Ultimately, results from this study are expected to inform the prioritized regions for flood risk mitigation.
How to cite: Lin, P., Gao, S., Zeng, Z., Wang, J., Zheng, K., Yin, Z., Yuan, Z., Huang, Z., Zhou, X., and Lei, X.: The dynamics of floodplain urbanization and hydraulic engineering development, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-11579, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11579, 2023.
