Hydraulic studies and their influence for regional urban planning: a pratical approach to Fynchal’s rivers

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Dénio Gouveia
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Camacho, Rafael Freitas, Lousada, Sérgio, Castanho, Rui Alexandre
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3753
• topic: Artificial channels; Modeling; Multidisciplinary studies; Urban floods; Urban planning; Funchal, Madeira (Portugal); Canais de escoamento artificiais.; Cheias urbanas; Modelação; Multidisciplinaridade; Planeamento urbanístico; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia

Flood phenomena in urban territories are a reality all over the globe.However, both urban planning processes and hydraulic studies are mostly not well-developed, considering the multidisciplinarity and complexity of the theme, resulting in urban agglomerations - with a tendency to occur in this typology of events – showing several gaps, regarding a well developed and articulated urban planning, not being able to deal with this type of natural phenomenon.In this regard, the combining of multivariate studies, such as urban planning and hydraulic studies, are seen as critical to achieve a sustained territorial success of the regions affected by this typology of phenomena. Thus, by exploratory tools and analysis methods: i.e. calculation of roughness coefficients in artificial runoff channels, analysis of surface runoff, computer models, evaluation and analysis of design and spatial planning policies in urban areas, and its application to a case study - the case of the Funchal´s Rivers, Madeira, Portugal - are just a few examples of analysis that the study carries out, from a multidisciplinary perspective, in order to define bases and measures, enabling to prevent and minimize the negative impacts of such events, as well as increasing the safety of resident populations.