Abstract
This thesis sheds light on coupling potential flood risk and drainage infrastructure resilience of low-lying areas of a coastal urban watershed to flood hazards and subsequent multi-scale impacts of those hazards via detailed modeling frameworks. Physically based models along with statistical models are employed to highlight the complexity for characterizing flood risk while evaluating such risk under various levels of adaptive capacity from traditional flood management techniques to low impact development (LID), as a first step to conduct resilience assessment. Findings indicate that the coupling flood risk and infrastructure resilience is achievable by the careful formulation of flood risk associated with a resilience metric, which is a function of the hazard(s) considered, vulnerability and adaptive capacity. The results also give insights into improving existing methodologies for municipalities in flood management practices such as incorporating multi-criteria flood risk evaluation that includes resilience.
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Graduation Date
2017
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Chang, Ni-Bin
Degree
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (M.S.Env.E.)
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering
Degree Program
Environmental Engineering
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0006748
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0006748
Language
English
Release Date
August 2017
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Joyce, Justin, "Coupling Infrastructure Resilience and Flood Risk Assessment for a Coastal Urban Watershed" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5573.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5573