Enrico Creaco, Ilaria Gnecco, Carlo Giudicianni, Stefano Boilini, Shaahin Nazarpour Tameh, Anna Palla
{"title":"Optimizing LID Practices in the Genoa Urban Drainage System Based on the Community's Call for Action Through Participatory Mapping","authors":"Enrico Creaco, Ilaria Gnecco, Carlo Giudicianni, Stefano Boilini, Shaahin Nazarpour Tameh, Anna Palla","doi":"10.1111/jfr3.70170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70170","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a novel methodology for optimizing installation of low impact development practices (LIDs) in an urban hydrological catchment. This methodology helps stakeholders in deciding on what kind and area of LID must be installed in each sub-catchment to attenuate pluvial flooding as a result of intense rain events. The main novelty consists of the community's engagement in the optimization process, by means of an additional objective function to consider the community's appreciation for the choice of LIDs. The methodology is applied to a real case study, i.e., a part of the urban drainage system (UDS) of Genoa, which is frequently plagued by pluvial flooding events that annoy the community. Following a survey of community preferences, the results of which were collected by means of participatory mapping, the methodology yields a Pareto front of trade-off solutions between installation costs, pluvial flooding volumes, and community satisfaction. From the front, stakeholders can select the ultimate solution based on budget constraints and/or on expected joint performance in terms of flood attenuation and community satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":49294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Flood Risk Management","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfr3.70170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enrico Creaco, Ilaria Gnecco, Carlo Giudicianni, Stefano Boilini, Shaahin Nazarpour Tameh, Anna Palla
{"title":"Optimizing LID Practices in the Genoa Urban Drainage System Based on the Community's Call for Action Through Participatory Mapping","authors":"Enrico Creaco, Ilaria Gnecco, Carlo Giudicianni, Stefano Boilini, Shaahin Nazarpour Tameh, Anna Palla","doi":"10.1111/jfr3.70170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70170","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a novel methodology for optimizing installation of low impact development practices (LIDs) in an urban hydrological catchment. This methodology helps stakeholders in deciding on what kind and area of LID must be installed in each sub-catchment to attenuate pluvial flooding as a result of intense rain events. The main novelty consists of the community's engagement in the optimization process, by means of an additional objective function to consider the community's appreciation for the choice of LIDs. The methodology is applied to a real case study, i.e., a part of the urban drainage system (UDS) of Genoa, which is frequently plagued by pluvial flooding events that annoy the community. Following a survey of community preferences, the results of which were collected by means of participatory mapping, the methodology yields a Pareto front of trade-off solutions between installation costs, pluvial flooding volumes, and community satisfaction. From the front, stakeholders can select the ultimate solution based on budget constraints and/or on expected joint performance in terms of flood attenuation and community satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":49294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Flood Risk Management","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfr3.70170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guodong Bian, Jie Ma, Fuquan Peng, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Fei He, Weixin Li, Mingming Song
{"title":"Approximately Double Increase in Flood Risk Under a 1.5°C/2.0°C Warmer Climate Over the Huai River Basin, China","authors":"Guodong Bian, Jie Ma, Fuquan Peng, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Fei He, Weixin Li, Mingming Song","doi":"10.1111/jfr3.70207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global warming increases the potential risks of hydrological extremes, such as extreme precipitation and flood. Limited attention has been given to the integrated effects of climate change, land-use change, and socioeconomic advancement on flood risk under global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C threshold outlined in the Paris Agreement. Here, utilizing the latest coupled model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6), the new shared socioeconomic pathway scenarios (SSPs), hydrological model and future land use simulation (FLUS) model, we perform a comprehensive assessment of the flood risk in the Huai River Basin (HRB) under the global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C scenarios. The results reveal that (1) more intense extreme precipitation events will occur in the HRB under two global warming scenarios. The increases in extreme precipitation are approximately twice as high under 2.0°C than under 1.5°C global warming scenario; (2) under global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C scenarios, future 100-year floods will increase by 18.4% and 19.2%, respectively, in the HRB; and (3) high flood-risk areas are expected to primarily locate in regions with unfavorable flood regimes, with increases of 4.3% and 17.8%, and very high flood-risk areas are projected to expand by 2% and 4.3%, respectively. Considering the holistic effects of future environmental changes on the flood risk, it is imperative to incorporate flood control management and prevention measures into regional adaptation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":49294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Flood Risk Management","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfr3.70207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guodong Bian, Jie Ma, Fuquan Peng, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Fei He, Weixin Li, Mingming Song
{"title":"Approximately Double Increase in Flood Risk Under a 1.5°C/2.0°C Warmer Climate Over the Huai River Basin, China","authors":"Guodong Bian, Jie Ma, Fuquan Peng, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Fei He, Weixin Li, Mingming Song","doi":"10.1111/jfr3.70207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global warming increases the potential risks of hydrological extremes, such as extreme precipitation and flood. Limited attention has been given to the integrated effects of climate change, land-use change, and socioeconomic advancement on flood risk under global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C threshold outlined in the Paris Agreement. Here, utilizing the latest coupled model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6), the new shared socioeconomic pathway scenarios (SSPs), hydrological model and future land use simulation (FLUS) model, we perform a comprehensive assessment of the flood risk in the Huai River Basin (HRB) under the global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C scenarios. The results reveal that (1) more intense extreme precipitation events will occur in the HRB under two global warming scenarios. The increases in extreme precipitation are approximately twice as high under 2.0°C than under 1.5°C global warming scenario; (2) under global warming of 1.5°C and 2.0°C scenarios, future 100-year floods will increase by 18.4% and 19.2%, respectively, in the HRB; and (3) high flood-risk areas are expected to primarily locate in regions with unfavorable flood regimes, with increases of 4.3% and 17.8%, and very high flood-risk areas are projected to expand by 2% and 4.3%, respectively. Considering the holistic effects of future environmental changes on the flood risk, it is imperative to incorporate flood control management and prevention measures into regional adaptation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":49294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Flood Risk Management","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jfr3.70207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}