Flood insurance can be costly for landowners, so Georgetown County, South Carolina, is looking for available discounts in the upcoming Community Rating System (CRS) review. Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the review process provides flood insurance discounts to ...
However, despite its destructive consequences, the adoption of flood insurance remains relatively low in China. 4.2.2. Other footprints of flood events in various areas China is home to the second-highest population on the planet, and astonishingly, the amount of land suitable for farming within ...
The non-structural measures are used to improve the management measures of flood control, such as flood forecasting and warning, insurance, aid, and post-flood recovery (Thieken et al., 2016). The structural measures are the large-scale drainage facilities and the improvement in the flood ...
tool, called Support Vector Regression (SVR)27. SVMs are suitable for both linear and nonlinear classification and are efficient and reliable tools for producing flood susceptibility maps in a GIS environment19. Machine learning methods show better performance and provide more cost-effective flood susce...
The flood extents and heights for Hurricane Sandy were combined with data on asset locations from an insurance industry exposure database. These were input into flood damage functions to obtain the economic losses for all flooded properties. The difference in losses between the two scenarios, represe...
2007 Flood Hazard Mapping • Flood Hazard Mapping is a basic tool for flood preparedness and mitigation activities, including flood insurance programs • Planners want to know inundation: • Spatial extent • Depth • Flow velocity • Probability of occurrence • Format should facilitate in...
validated using aggregated insurance data from various flood events that have affected the four cities in the past. The results are accessible as an online web tool (https://platform.saferplaces.co), where the damage model presented in this study can be run under different flood mitigation ...
(MSC) provides interactive maps regarding flood hazard/risk to support the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Details about how flood maps are generated can be found in Wright (2014). In addition to this, the UK Environment Agency provides interactive maps that show flood risks from ...
Also, inaccurate loss estimation for commercial buildings leads to wasted effort, money and resources for insurance companies and organisations involved in risk mitigation [36], [37]. In spite of these facts, available approaches have concentrated on residential building losses, and they are still ...
Flood resilience has been rising up the political, economic and social agendas. Taking an integrated systems approach, using the right design guidance and