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Ekeanyanwu, C. (2021) Examining Residents’ Vulnerability from the Flood Hazard in the Onion Creek Neighborhood of Austin Texas: Who Is At-Risk and Why? Texas State University, San Marcos.
https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/15449

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• TITLE: Modeling and Mapping Flood Hazard with a Flood Risk Assessment Tool: A Case Study of Austin, Texas

  AUTHORS: Chikodinaka Vanessa Ekeanyanwu, Priyanjali Bose, Matthew Beavers, Yihong Yuan, Inioluwa Obisakin

  KEYWORDS: Mapping, Texas, Flood Risk, Susceptibility, Vulnerability, GIS, ArcPy

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Geographic Information System, Vol.14 No.4, August 12, 2022

  ABSTRACT: As a hazard, flood is an extremely important indicator of how a city is resilient to waterborne diseases and epidemics. Over many decades, flood as a hazard has been a major factor in inducing displacement of marginalized section of the people. Austin city within Central Texas has been identified as one of the major hotspots for flooding in recent decades. Thus, the objectives of the paper are two folded: 1) Empirically, we analyzed and mapped out the susceptibility levels from the factors of physical environments to assess the risk of urban flooding (rainfall data, surface water bodies and topography); in Austin, Texas and 2) Methodologically, we created a re-useable ArcGIS scripting tool that can be used by researchers to automate the process of flood risk modelling with certain criteria. The paper showcases a novel time sensitive building of a tool which will enable better visibility of flood within the city of Austin.