Flood Risk Management in Remote and Impoverished Areas—A Case Study of Onaville, Haiti

In this study, geographic information system (GIS)-based hydrologic and hydraulic modeling was used to perform a flood risk assessment for Onaville, which is a fairly new, rapidly growing informal settlement that is exposed to dangerous flash-flood events. Since records of historic floods did not ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valentin Heimhuber, Johann-Christian Hannemann, Wolfgang Rieger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Water
Subjects:
DEM
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/7/7/3832