TY - JOUR
T1 - Flood Prevention Strategy in Taiwan
T2 - Lessons Learned from Typhoon Morakot
AU - Hsieh, Lung Sheng
AU - Jang, Jiun Huei
AU - Lin, Hsuan Ju
AU - Yu, Pao Shan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan during August 7-9, 2009. Its record-breaking rainfall caused catastrophic dam-age, making it the deadliest typhoon to visit Taiwan in the last 50 years. Conducting a three-months and 160-member-strong field investigation of the scale and causes of this disaster, this paper proposes strategies effective to improve flood prevention work in Tai-wan. The severe flood disaster triggered by Typhoon Morakot’s excessive rainfall is attributable to four fac-tors: (1) hydraulic system failures, (2) river flow retar-dation, (3) reservoir release, and (4) land subsidence. Based on these findings, this paper proposes comprehensive improvement strategies in hydraulic facility inspection, emergency response, river basin manage-ment, and climate change assessment to improve flood prevention work in Taiwan. This study combines gov-ernmental, academic, and public efforts in investigat-ing effective post-disaster flood prevention strategies that we hope will prove to be a useful reference for other countries while facing such issues.
AB - Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan during August 7-9, 2009. Its record-breaking rainfall caused catastrophic dam-age, making it the deadliest typhoon to visit Taiwan in the last 50 years. Conducting a three-months and 160-member-strong field investigation of the scale and causes of this disaster, this paper proposes strategies effective to improve flood prevention work in Tai-wan. The severe flood disaster triggered by Typhoon Morakot’s excessive rainfall is attributable to four fac-tors: (1) hydraulic system failures, (2) river flow retar-dation, (3) reservoir release, and (4) land subsidence. Based on these findings, this paper proposes comprehensive improvement strategies in hydraulic facility inspection, emergency response, river basin manage-ment, and climate change assessment to improve flood prevention work in Taiwan. This study combines gov-ernmental, academic, and public efforts in investigat-ing effective post-disaster flood prevention strategies that we hope will prove to be a useful reference for other countries while facing such issues.
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U2 - 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0325
DO - 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0325
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875293773
SN - 1881-2473
VL - 5
SP - 325
EP - 329
JO - Journal of Disaster Research
JF - Journal of Disaster Research
IS - 3
ER -