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Residential Building Flood Risk Assessment And The Benefits Of Home Elevation, Ayat Al Assi
Residential Building Flood Risk Assessment And The Benefits Of Home Elevation, Ayat Al Assi
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Evaluating flood risk is an essential component of understanding and increasing community resilience. A robust approach for quantifying flood risk in terms of average annual loss (AAL) in dollars is needed to provide valuable information for stakeholder decision-making inside and outside the special flood hazard area (SFHA, which corresponds to the 100-year floodplain). To further inform flood mitigation strategies, quantifying flood risk reduction with home elevation above an initial first-floor height (FFH0) and the cost effectiveness of federal mitigation assistance for elevation are important steps to enhance awareness of the effect of elevation in reducing flood risk. …