10.4122/1.1000001134
Nascimento, N.
N.
Nascimento
Baptista, M.
M.
Baptista
Silva, A.
A.
Silva
Machado, M. L.
M. L.
Machado
Costa De Lima, J.
J.
Costa De Lima
Gon\303\247alves, M.
M.
Gon\303\247alves
Silva, A.
A.
Silva
Dias, R.
R.
Dias
Machado, E.
E.
Machado
Flood-damage curves: Methodological development for the Brazilian context
DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
2005
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Flood damage
flood control
flood-damage curves
Federal University Of Minas Gerais, Department Of Hydraulics
Department Of Hydraulics
Federal University Of Minas Gerais
Federal University Of Minas Gerais, Department Of Construction Engineering
Department Of Construction Engineering
Federal University Of Minas Gerais
Federal University Of Minas Gerais, Department Of Structural Engineering
Department Of Structural Engineering
Federal University Of Minas Gerais
2005
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10.4122/1.1000001133
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The present paper describes the main results of an on-going research aiming to develop standard flood damage data in the form of generic flood-damage curves. This type of curve allows estimating flood damages from the depth of inundation. Although the research project encompasses flood damages on different urban land use activities (residential, commercial, services and industrial land uses), the paper focus on residential flood damage information. The empirical data used on this research was obtained from systematic surveys performed in the city of Itajub\303\241, a town with 85.000 inhabitants located in the Sapuca\303\255 river valley in the South-eastern region of Brazil, during the year of 2002. The survey consisted in interviewing residents in the Itajub\303\241 flood prone urban area in order to develop a data base characterizing the social class, the building fabric, the contents (inventory items) and the damages caused to dwellings by a reference flood event, the 2000 flood event. During this event, the town had more than 70% of its urban area flooded for three days and, in some densely urbanised areas, the depth of water was superior to three meters.