Risk to life due to flooding in post-Katrina New Orleans

After the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina in the year 2005, the city’s hurricane protection system has been improved to provide protection against storms with at least a 100 year return period. This thesis investigates the risk to life in the post-Katrina situation for the New Orleans metro bowl. The risk to life is...

Research on the relationships between flood characteristics and fatalities: based on the flooding in New Orleans caused by hurricane Katrina

The new flood safety approach for the Netherlands includes, besides the probability of extreme water levels, other type of dike failures and the consequences of a flood. The consequences of a flood are economic damage, materialistic damage and the number of fatalities. To determine the possible number of fatalities during a flood, fatality...