Planning to Exacerbate Flooding
Evaluating a Houston, Texas, Network of Plans in Place during Hurricane Harvey Using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21738617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Malecha (0000-0003-4200-6593, ORCID, corresponding author), Sierra C Woodruff (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M Univ., Scoates Hall, Room 125, 3137 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3137), Sierra Woodruff (0000-0002-5456-857X, Texas A&M University), Philip R Berke (Research Professor, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, New East Bldg., CB# 3140, Chapel Hill, NC 27599), Philip Berke (0000-0002-6099-8066, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Natural Hazards Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-6988 • E-ISSN: 1527-6996 |
| Publisher | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000470 |
| OpenAlex | W3170445286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 27 |
In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, Texas, where flooding already was a persistent and growing challenge. Coordinated, proactive land-use planning has been shown to help mitigate flooding hazards, whereas conflicting guidance can exacerbate the problem. This study used the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS) method to spatially evaluate a network of plans guiding land use and development in western Houston when Harvey struck, assessing their integration and effects on flood vulnerability. Despite generally positive results, we found important variations and conflicts across plans and across the study area. By encouraging development without sufficient attention to flood risk, some plans and policies increased vulnerability, especially in places outside the official 100-year (1% annual chance) floodplain but still in danger of flooding. A false sense of security provided by local flood control structures may have amplified the problem by enabling more intense development—an example of the safe development paradox—and making the area even more vulnerable to cascading effects from a massive and sustained precipitation event such as Harvey
Balanced scorecard · Business · Cartography · Computer security · Emergency management · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Flood control · Flood mitigation · Flood myth · Floodplain · Geography · Political science · Process management · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
Modeling NFIP-insured housing losses from Texas and Florida flood disasters
A comparison of plan integration for flood and heat resilience
Unintended consequences of public policies in increasing risk
Examining factors influencing plan integration for community resilience in six US coastal cities using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
How Plans Prepare for Future Uncertainty
More than the Sum of Their Parts
Quality of Cities’ Networks of Plans and Prospects for Flood Resilience
Plan Integration for Ecological Resilience
Multi-Hazard assessment methods for planning
Integrated infrastructure-plan analysis for resilience enhancement of post-hazards access to critical facilities
Federally Overlooked Flood Risk Inequities in Houston, Texas
Making Governments Plan
Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities
Searching for the Good Plan
Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and Climate Change
Making Room for the River
Urban Hazard Mitigation
The New Dutch spatial planning act
Autonomous planning
Climate policy integration in the land use sector
Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Coordinating Plans for Climate Adaptation
Measuring and Reporting Intercoder Reliability in Plan Quality Evaluation Research
Plans that Disrupt Development
Planning for Climate Adaptation
Spatially evaluating a network of plans and flood vulnerability using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
Hurricane Katrina and the Paradoxes of Government Disaster Policy
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |