FLOOD VULNERABILITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES – REVIEW
Flood event is one of the natural disasters that increasingly threaten the safety of the people in an area. Critical infrastructure albeit important, has been shown to be vulnerable to flooding and damages to critical infrastructure element may affect large areas over a longer time period. Critica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Zibeline International
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Malaysian Journal of Geosciences |
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| Online Access: | https://myjgeosc.com/archives/1mjg2018/1mjg2018-34-37.pdf |
| Summary: | Flood event is one of the natural disasters that increasingly threaten the safety of the people in an area. Critical
infrastructure albeit important, has been shown to be vulnerable to flooding and damages to critical infrastructure
element may affect large areas over a longer time period. Critical infrastructures play an important role in
functioning of industries and communities and also responding against flooding to reduce their impacts. Critical
infrastructures such as hospital, school, road networks and other infrastructures are important during flood event
to serve as emergency services. It was found that there is difference in understanding the concept of vulnerability
with varying assessments and different view. This paper briefly reviews the concept of vulnerability and discusses
on the approach used for flood vulnerability of critical infrastructure by past researchers to identify and fortify the
vulnerable critical infrastructure ahead of time reducing the potential damage due to flood. This paper focuses the
vulnerability of critical infrastructure during flood event and also describes several approaches with a discussion
on the application of the approaches used and the relevance results. |
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| ISSN: | 2521-0920 2521-0602 |