Building resilience in Asian mega-deltas

FKS Chan, A Paszkowski, Z Wang, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The five Asian mega-deltas (the Yangtze, the Pearl, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong and the
Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna deltas) are home to approximately 80% of the global deltaic …

From managing risk to increasing resilience: a review on the development of urban flood resilience, its assessment and the implications for decision making

V Rözer, S Mehryar, S Surminski - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Driven by urban growth in hazard prone areas such as along coasts or rivers as well as by
climate change induced sea-level rise and increase in extreme rainfall, flood risk in urban …

The role of digital techniques in organisational resilience and performance of logistics firms in response to disruptive events: Flooding as an example

X Gu, HK Chan, DR Thadani, FKS Chan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has resulted in the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather
events. One example is flooding, which has driven logistics firms to reconsider their …

[HTML][HTML] Compound flood effects, challenges and solutions: Lessons toward climate-resilient Chinese coastal cities

FKS Chan, X Lu, J Li, Y Lai, M Luo, YD Chen… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Compound flood events by storm-enhanced intensive rainfall and surges on coastal and
inland surface water flooding are increasingly exacerbated, causing significant impacts in …

Perception of sponge city for achieving circularity goal and hedge against climate change: a study on Weibo

L Zeng, RYM Li, H Zeng, L Song - International Journal of Climate …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Global climate change speeds up ice melting and increases flooding incidents.
China launched a sponge city policy as a holistic nature-based solution combined with …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of sustainable flood risk management by four countries–the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan–and the implications …

FKS Chan, LE Yang, G Mitchell… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Sustainable flood risk management (SFRM) has become popular since the 1980s. Many
governmental and non-governmental organisations have been keen on implementing the …

Improving urban flood resilience via GDELT GKG analyses in China's Sponge Cities

X Lu, FKS Chan, N Li, C Chen, WQ Chen, HK Chan - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Urban floods are the most severe disaster in most Chinese cities due to rapid urbanisation
and climate challenges. Recently, media data analytics has become prominent in enhancing …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring community perceptions and engagement of nature-based solutions: The case of Ningbo, a Chinese coastal sponge city

FKS Chan, L Lu, Y Zhu, MV Balzan, A Pezzoli… - Nature-Based …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable stormwater management facilities such as strip bioretention, effectively improve
the urban landscape's urban stormwater quality and aesthetics. The progress of Nature …

[HTML][HTML] Width of surface rupture zone for thrust earthquakes: implications for earthquake fault zoning

P Boncio, F Liberi, M Caldarella… - Natural Hazards and …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …

Selected global flood preparation and response lessons: implications for more resilient Chinese Cities

FKS Chan, Z Wang, J Chen, X Lu, T Nafea, B Montz… - Natural Hazards, 2023 - Springer
Urban populations are rising globally, and more extreme climate events are occurring, which
means more people are exposed to flood hazards such as pluvial, fluvial, coastal and …