TY - JOUR
T1 - A coupled flood-agent-institution modelling (CLAIM) framework for urban flood risk management
AU - Abebe, Yared Abayneh
AU - Ghorbani, Amineh
AU - Nikolic, Igor
AU - Vojinovic, Zoran
AU - Sanchez, Arlex
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In this paper, we describe a modelling framework that allows the integration of human and physical components of flood risk. Within this framework, flood risk management is conceptualized as a coupled human-flood system. The human subsystem includes individuals and their behaviour and institutions that shape human-flood interaction. The framework presents a dynamic integration between agent-based models of individuals and institutions and numerical flood models. We demonstrate the framework's modelling application by examining the effects of three institutions in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. The case study shows the capabilities of the framework by exploring impacts of existing policies on flood risk reduction. Coupled agent-based-flood models built using the framework are useful to analyse policy options that address flood hazard and communities' vulnerability and exposure to support policy decision making. These models also show how flood risk changes over time in relation to the human dynamics on the urban environment.
AB - In this paper, we describe a modelling framework that allows the integration of human and physical components of flood risk. Within this framework, flood risk management is conceptualized as a coupled human-flood system. The human subsystem includes individuals and their behaviour and institutions that shape human-flood interaction. The framework presents a dynamic integration between agent-based models of individuals and institutions and numerical flood models. We demonstrate the framework's modelling application by examining the effects of three institutions in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. The case study shows the capabilities of the framework by exploring impacts of existing policies on flood risk reduction. Coupled agent-based-flood models built using the framework are useful to analyse policy options that address flood hazard and communities' vulnerability and exposure to support policy decision making. These models also show how flood risk changes over time in relation to the human dynamics on the urban environment.
KW - Agent-based modelling
KW - Coupled human-flood systems
KW - Flood risk management
KW - Institutions
KW - Socio-hydrology
KW - Urban flood modelling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.10.015
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.10.015
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-8152
VL - 111
SP - 483
EP - 492
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
ER -