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A review of advances in urban flood risk analysis over China

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China’s urban environments are particularly vulnerable to flooding due to climate change and rapid urbanization. Study of the urban flood risk analysis has significantly increased over the past decade, and this paper therefore reviews the main results (i.e. theoretical basis, methods, techniques, case studies) obtained in the literature from China. We focus on the following topics: (1) urban flood hazard analysis, (2) exposure and vulnerability analysis, and (3) urban flood risk assessment. Recent advances made in the research area are presented with suggestions for further research to improve the availability and reliability of urban flood risk analysis.

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation in China (Grant No: 41201550, 41371493, 41071324, 71373084, U1204403), the Humanities and Social Science Project of Education Ministry (Grant No: 12YJCZH257, 14YJCZH128), Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No: 13YZ061, 13ZZ035), the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (Grant No: SKLEC-KF201407), Key Project of Young Talent Foundation from Zhejiang Gongshang University (Grant No: QZ13-2).

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    Jie Yin

  2. Key Laboratory of Geo-information Science of the Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Mingwu Ye & Shiyuan Xu

  3. Department of Geography, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Zhane Yin

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Yin, J., Ye, M., Yin, Z. et al. A review of advances in urban flood risk analysis over China. Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess 29, 1063–1070 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-014-0939-7

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