Urban flooding : greenhouse-induced impacts, methodology and case studies.

"Funded by the Atmospheric Protection Branch, Department of Environment, Sport and Territories"

Bibliography: p. 65-68

The literature on greenhouse climate change makes frequent reference to the possibility of marked changes to the magnitude and frequency of those natural hazards related to meteorological causes. The adverse impacts of these changes upon urban communities at risk from riverine flooding are often cited as examples. However, detailed studies that consider the effects of climate change scenarios of flood regimes are few and those that convert these changes in hydrology to estimates of urban flood damage are even more sparse. This study attempts to redress this deficiency by considering the effects of climate change on flood losses for Australian case studies. The report is presented in three parts, corresponding to the three aims of the project: 1) to model flood frequency and magnitude under enhanced greenhouse rainfall intensities; 2) to use the greenhouse flood data to assess changes to vulnerability of flood prone urban areas and to express these in terms of tangible and intangible losses; 3) to consider policy response to meet the changes to vulnerability and damage