Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-833-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-833-2016
Research article
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23 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2016

Regional prioritisation of flood risk in mountainous areas

María Carolina Rogelis, Micha Werner, Nelson Obregón, and Nigel Wright

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A method to identify mountainous watersheds with the highest flood risk at the regional level is proposed and applied in Bogotá (Colombia). Vulnerability at the regional level was assessed and combined with an existing flood susceptibility indicator, thus providing an index that allows the watersheds to be prioritised. Results show that vulnerability can be expressed in terms of four constituent indicators and a sensitivity analysis shows that the classification of vulnerability is robust.
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