caa a22 4500 467936498 CHVBK 20180406152958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11069-005-4667-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11069-005-4667-7 Impact of Flood Disasters on Taiwan in the Last Quarter Century [Elektronische Daten] [Wei-Hsien Teng, Ming-Hsi Hsu, Chung-Hsing Wu, Albert Chen] The increasing natural disasters, especially floods during the last quarter century, are raising the economic losses in Taiwan. The most severe hazard in Taiwan is flooding induced by typhoons and storms in summer and autumn. By comparing the rivers around the world, the ones in Taiwan have the steepest slopes, the largest discharge per unit drainage area, and the shortest time of concentrations. Rapid urbanization without proper land uses managements usually worsen the flood problems. Consequently, flood hazards mitigation has become the most essential task for Taiwan to deal with. Although the government keeps improving flood defense structures, the flood damage grows continuously. In this article, possible flood mitigation strategies are identified for coping with complex environmental and social decisions with flood risk involved. Springer, 2006 Taiwan nationallicence flood mitigation nationallicence flood hazards nationallicence urban development nationallicence inundation potential nationallicence Teng Wei-Hsien Department of Architecture, National United University, #1, Lien-Kung, Kung-Ching Li, 360, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC aut Hsu Ming-Hsi Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut Wu Chung-Hsing Department of Safety, College of Engineering & Science, Health & Environmental Engineering, National United University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut Chen Albert National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/1-2(2006-02-01), 191-207 0921-030X 37:1-2<191 2006 37 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-4667-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-4667-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Teng Wei-Hsien Department of Architecture, National United University, #1, Lien-Kung, Kung-Ching Li, 360, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hsu Ming-Hsi Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wu Chung-Hsing Department of Safety, College of Engineering & Science, Health & Environmental Engineering, National United University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen Albert National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/1-2(2006-02-01), 191-207 0921-030X 37:1-2<191 2006 37 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer