A review of the flood management: from flood control to flood resilience

Lihong Wang; Shenghui Cui; Yuanzheng Li; Hongjie Huang; Bikram Manandhar; Vilas Nitivattananon; Xuejuan Fang; Wei Huang

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11763

A review of the flood management: from flood control to flood resilience

Heliyon. 2022 Nov 25;8(11):e11763. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11763. eCollection 2022 Nov.

Authors

Lihong Wang^{1

2

3}, Shenghui Cui^{1

3}, Yuanzheng Li⁴, Hongjie Huang^{1

2

3}, Bikram Manandhar^{1

2

3

5}, Vilas Nitivattananon⁶, Xuejuan Fang^{1

2

3}, Wei Huang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Xiamen Key Lab of Urban Metabolism, Xiamen 361021, China.
³ Xiamen Key Lab of Urban Metabolism, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
⁴ School of Resources and Environment, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
⁵ Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry, Hetauda 44107, Nepal.
⁶ Urban Environm Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani 12120.

Abstract

Climate change and socioeconomic developments are increasing the frequency and severity of floods. Flood management is widely recognized as an effective way to reduce the adverse consequences, and a more resilient and sustainable flood management approach has been the goal in recent studies. This study used a detailed bibliometric analysis of keywords, terms and timelines in the research field of the flood research. It provides new insight into the flood research trends, by examining the research frontiers from 2000 to 2021. We conclude that the trend of flood research has experienced a transition from flood control to flood resilience. The review shows that flood research has moved from traditional flood management, which provides mitigation strategies, to flood risk management, which provides an adaptation approach-adjusting mitigation measures, to flood resilience management, which provides a more resilient and sustainable plan to cope with flood disasters. We also present a detailed overview of the field of flood research, and review the definition of risk, risk analysis methods, flood management, flood risk management, flood resilience, and corresponding implementation strategies. We conclude that integrating the concept of resilience into the framework of risk management is a better approach in future flood management directions. Consequently, appropriate options and decisions prior to disaster, during disaster, and post-disaster will effectively reduce the adverse consequences using the theory of risk, resilience, and sustainability.

Keywords: Adaptation options; Flood management; Management strategies; Resilience indicators; Risk assessment; Risk management.

Publication types

Review