Effect of urbanization on coastal flash floods | ||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||
| Article 40, Volume 9, 9th International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, May 2012, Pages 1-11 PDF (421.25 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2012.44364 | ||
| Authors | ||
| HOSSAM ELDIN M. ELHANAFY; NABIL M. NAGY; MOSTAFA T. GAMAL ELDIN | ||
| Egyptian Armed Forces. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT Flood events are considered one of the most dangers natural disasters that can cause people to be homeless as their homes destroyed due to such events. The previous point is not only the negative effect of flood disaster, but also floods can cause destruction of infrastructures, loss of life and economic impacts as well. Creation of new communities and consequently has its adverse effect of flood event. Urbanization of the northern coast in Egypt is not only a necessity but also it’s a fact. Urbanization of rural area which are threaten by floods increase the total volume of water and increase the flood wave velocity as well. The paper discusses the positive and negative effects of urbanization. The paper analyzes a selected watershed in the northern coast of Egypt. The aim of this research is to examine the changes in the flood characteristics of flood event such total volume of flood, total volume of sediments, peak discharge, and time to peak. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| urbanization; coastal flash floods; flood disaster | ||
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